Oleg Losev

Invisible pour ceux qui l'entourent, un réalisateur contemporain se retrouve comme par magie dans le musée de l'Ermitage à Saint-Pétersbourg au début du XVIIIe siècle. Il y rencontre un cynique diplomate français du XIXe siècle. Les deux hommes deviennent complices au cours d'un extraordinaire voyage dans le temps, à travers le turbulent passé de la Russie, qui les conduit jusqu'à nos jours.

"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.