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.
Director: Elina Heiskanen
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Esa-Pekka Salonen as Self - Conductor |
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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 as |
| Sound | Dmitri Shostakovich | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Aleksei Tolstoy | Original Story |
| Directing | Elina Heiskanen | Director |
| Writing | Alexander Starchakov | Writer |
| Crew | Louis Price | Cinematography |
