Film

Orango 2014

34 min Music Drama

"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.

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Cast

  • Esa-Pekka Salonen as Self - Conductor
  • Natalia Pavlova as Suzanna
  • Dmitro Koljeuško as Ivanov
  • Natalia Jakimova as Renée
  • Aleksander Šagun as Armand Fleury
  • Aleksander Trofimov as Paul Mâche

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