“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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Ratings: | IMDB: 0.0/10 | |
Released: | August 20, 2014 | |
Runtime: | 34 min | |
Genres: | Drama Music Short | |
Countries: | Finland | |
Companies: | YLE Yle Fem | |
Cast: | Esa-Pekka Salonen Natalia Pavlova Dmitro Koljeusko | |
Crew: | Elina Heiskanen Alexander Starchakov Aleksei Tolstoy | |
CJ'sGirl : That was a tough one. Edge of my seat beginning to end.