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Orango

Orango (2014)

0h 34m | PG-13

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"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Mariinsky Theatre Academy. In the 1920s, Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov carried out a series of experiments to create a human/nonhuman ape hybrid. Three female chimpanzees were inseminated with human sperm. No pregnancy occurred.. In 1929 he organized a set of experiments involving nonhuman ape sperm and human volunteers, but was delayed by the death of his last orangutan.

Director: Elina Heiskanen

Studio: YLE

Genre: Music, Drama

Video: 720p

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Cast

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Esa-Pekka Salonen

as Self - Conductor

Natalia Pavlova

Natalia Pavlova

as Suzanna

Dmitro Koljeuško

Dmitro Koljeuško

as Ivanov

Natalia Jakimova

Natalia Jakimova

as Renée

Aleksander Šagun

Aleksander Šagun

as Armand Fleury

Aleksander Trofimov

Aleksander Trofimov

as Paul Mâche