Orango
movie
Released August 20, 2014
Overview
"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
as
Self - Conductor
Natalia Pavlova
as
Suzanna
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Dmitro Koljeuško
as
Ivanov
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Natalia Jakimova
as
Renée
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Aleksander Šagun
as
Armand Fleury
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Aleksander Trofimov
as
Paul Mâche
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Ivan Novoselov
as
Orango
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Vladimir Babokin
as
Foreigner 1
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Oleg Losev
as
Foreigner 2
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Leo Elhardt
as
Voice from the crowd
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Denis Beganski
as
The Entertainer
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Juri Jevtšuk
