THE MEN/APE EXPERIMENT
Lichtfilm proposed to MDR (Heribert Schneiders/Katja Wildermuth) a historical documentary about the men/ape breeding experiment in the Sovietunion of the 30th. They failed at that time. Today hybrid breeding is possible and done and seems to be ethicly accepted by the western societies.
The 52 minute film will be produced in HD and released in December 2008 and be broadcasted at first on ARTE.
There were rumours about the wish of Stalin to espouse a woman with a male ape to create hybrid ape-men as warrior or slave-worker. The always well informed German BILD newspaper headlined about this. But this was wrong, not Stalin, more Trotsky supported the idea of unleashed breeding.
The film will explore the experimenting of Professor Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, who – by the way – was the first to contrive the fertilization without physical coitus, Ivan Pavlov and Alexander Bogdanov with a deeply researched archive footage and shootings on the locations.
To read the full script click here: film script