Orango
movie
View on VideBits →"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 & crew
Aleksander Šagun · Aleksander Trofimov · Dmitro Koljeuško · Esa-Pekka Salonen · Ivan Novoselov · Leo Elhardt · Natalia Jakimova · Natalia Pavlova · Oleg Losev · Vladimir Babokin · Elina Heiskanen · Alexander Starchakov