Orango

Orango

🎞️ Movie 34 min FI
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.

Cast

Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Conductor
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Natalia Pavlova
Suzanna
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Dmitro Koljeusko
Ivanov
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Natalia Jakimova
Renée
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Aleksander Sagun
Armand Fleury
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Ivan Novoselov
Orango
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Vladimir Babokin
Forreigner 1
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Denis Beganski
The Entertainer
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Leo Elhardt
Voice from the crowd
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Juri Jevtsuk
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Louis Price
Cinematographer