Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
2001/07/11 • Released • Russian
Overview
A story of an actor named Oleg whose wife has been seduced by his neighbor. As he is thoroughly convinced of her infidelity, he would like to poison her. An old man named Prokhorov helps him to get rid of his wife by lecturing about famous deaths caused by poisoning. It is from Prokhorov we learn that many famous and not so famous like Cesare Borgia and Caligula were killed as they were poisoned.
Director : Karen Shakhnazarov
Casts
Oleg Basilashvili
Prohorov / Pope Alexander VI
Ignat Akrachkov
Volkov
Aleksandr Bashirov
Neighbour
Lyudmila Kasatkina
Mother-in-law
Andrei Panin
Cesare Borgia
Olga Tumaykina
Neighbour's wife
Vasiliy Dolbitikov
Marina Kazankova
Lukretsiya Bordzhia
Ekaterina Klimova
Irina Leonova
Pavel Poymalov
Tatyana Monakhova
Pavel Vashchilin
Yuri Osherov
Dillon Oloiede
Aleksey Alekseev
Aleksandr Ablyazov
Dmitriy Dyuzhev
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