Film · 2014 · 34m

Orango

Name: Orango
Genre: Music, Drama
Released: 2014-08-20
Duration: 34 min
Cast: Esa-Pekka Salonen, Natalia Pavlova, Dmitro Koljeuško, Natalia Jakimova, Aleksander Šagun

Music Drama

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Synopsis

"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.