Release Date

20 Aug, 2014

Runtime

00:34: (HH:MM)

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.

Original Title

Orango

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Actors

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Natalia Pavlova

Dmitro Koljeuško

Natalia Jakimova

Aleksander Šagun

Aleksander Trofimov

Ivan Novoselov

Vladimir Babokin

Oleg Losev

Leo Elhardt

Denis Beganski

Juri Jevtšuk

Crew

Дмитрий Шостакович

Алексей Толстой

Elina Heiskanen

Alexander Starchakov

Louis Price