Poisons or the World History of Poisoning

Jul 11, 2001

1h 46m

★ 5.1

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.

Genres

Comedy

History

Production Companies

Kuryer Film Studio

Mosfilm

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Cast

Prohorov / Pope Alexander VI

Oleg Basilashvili

Volkov

Ignat Akrachkov

Neighbour

Aleksandr Bashirov

Mother-in-law

Lyudmila Kasatkina

Cesare Borgia

Andrei Panin

Neighbour's wife

Olga Tumaykina

Vasiliy Dolbitikov

Zhanna Dudanova

Lukretsiya Bordzhia

Marina Kazankova

Ekaterina Klimova

Irina Leonova

Pavel Poymalov

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