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Director
Alexandru Solomon
Producer
Alexandru Solomon
Production company
Hi Film Productions
Director of photography
Andrei Butica
Editor
Sophie Reiter
Planned premiere
December 2013
WWW
http://www.alexandrusolomon.ro

Tarzan's Testicles

Romania, 90 min, 35 mm, HD, Creative

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On the outskirts of Sukhum, capital of the separatist Republic of Abkhazia, lies the Institute for Experimental Pathology and Therapy. Among dilapidated buildings housing derelict laboratories, lives a population of a few hundreds of monkeys, caged in poor conditions. The subtropical vegetation and the picturesque hillside overlooking the Black Sea beautify an overall depressing picture. This place could be paradise, if it weren’t wounded by its recent history. But inside the ruined buildings, the staff is performing medical research on monkeys, experiments that deal, to say the least, with some of humanity’s biggest issues: survival in outer space, healing some of the most terrible diseases and prolongation of life. And they have been doing this for the past 90 years... From this contrast, a film is about to be born. The first apes arrived in Sukhum on August 24, 1927. They were sent there on the initiative of Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov and a group of Soviet fellow-scientists. Ivanov, a well-known specialist in artificial insemination and hybridization, was obsessed with obtaining an offspring from Man and Ape. Ivanov found political support for his experiments, since these promised to be THE definitive argument for Evolution and a major stroke against Religion and the power of the Church among Russian population. This is how the world’s first ever primate testing center was established. Today, the site is listed as a tourist attraction on the Abkhazian government’s site as the „Monkey Colony”, without mentioning that this is the symbolic reminder of several utopias nowadays deeply questioned or simply ruined: Communism, the conquest of the Universe and Man’s ability to dominate Nature.

Director:

Alexandru Solomon

Producer:

Alexandru Solomon

Executive producer:

Ada Solomon

Director of photography:

Andrei Butica

Screenplay:

Alexandru Solomon

Editor:

Sophie Reiter