Poisons or the World History of Poisoning

Karen Shakhnazarov
2001-07-11


5.1
106 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Oleg Basilashvili Prohorov / Pope Alexander VI Unowned
Ignat Akrachkov Volkov Unowned
Aleksandr Bashirov Neighbour Unowned
Lyudmila Kasatkina Mother-in-law Unowned
Andrei Panin Cesare Borgia Unowned
Olga Tumaykina Neighbour's wife Unowned
Vasiliy Dolbitikov Unowned
Zhanna Dudanova Unowned
Marina Kazankova Lukretsiya Bordzhia Unowned
Ekaterina Klimova Unowned
Irina Leonova Unowned
Pavel Poymalov Unowned
Tatyana Monakhova Unowned
Pavel Vashchilin Unowned
Yuri Osherov Unowned
Dillon Oloiede Unowned
Natalya Kulinkina Unowned
Aleksey Alekseev Unowned
Aleksandr Ablyazov Unowned
Dmitriy Dyuzhev Unowned