Orango (2014)
"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.
Directing:
Writing:
Stars:
- Elina Heiskanen
Writing:
- Aleksei Tolstoy
- Alexander Starchakov
Stars:
Release Date: 2014-08-20
- Country: FI
- Language: en
- Runtime: 34
Self - Conductor
Suzanna
