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.
Year 2014
Studio YLE
Director Elina Heiskanen
Crew Dmitri Shostakovich (Original Music Composer), Aleksei Tolstoy (Original Story), Elina Heiskanen (Director), Alexander Starchakov (Writer), Louis Price (Cinematography)
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