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Orango (2014)
Directed by Elina Heiskanen
Music, Drama · 34m
"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.
Cast
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Self - Conductor
Natalia Pavlova
Suzanna
D
Dmitro Koljeuško
Ivanov
N
Natalia Jakimova
Renée
A
Aleksander Šagun
Armand Fleury
A
Aleksander Trofimov
Paul Mâche
I
Ivan Novoselov
Orango
V
Vladimir Babokin
Foreigner 1
O
Oleg Losev
Foreigner 2
L
Leo Elhardt
Voice from the crowd
D
Denis Beganski
The Entertainer
J
Juri Jevtšuk
Crew
- Director
- Elina Heiskanen
- Writer
- Alexander Starchakov
- Original Music Composer
- Dmitri Shostakovich
Details
- Release date
- 2014-08-20
- Runtime
- 34m
- Genres
- Music, Drama
- Original language
- RU
- Countries
- Finland
- Production
- YLE