Overview
""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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 20, 2014
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Finland
- Production
- YLE
- Cast
- Ivan Novoselov,Leo Elhardt,Aleksander Trofimov,Natalia Pavlova,Denis Beganski,Juri Jevtšuk,Oleg Losev,Natalia Jakimova,Esa-Pekka Salonen,Vladimir Babokinand 2 more
- Director
- Elina Heiskanen
- Music
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
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