Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
2001 · 106 min
Comedy · History
★ 5.2A 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.
Crew
- Director Karen Shakhnazarov
- Writer Aleksandr Borodyanskiy
- Writer Karen Shakhnazarov
- Director of Photography Vladimir Klimov
Cast
Ignat Akrachkov
Volkov
Oleg Basilashvili
Prohorov / Pope Alexander VI
- Z
Zhanna Dudanova
Katya
Aleksandr Bashirov
Arnold Sharapov
Olga Tumaykina
Zoe Filimonova
Lyudmila Kasatkina
Evgenia Ivanovna Holodkova
Andrei Panin
Cesare Borgia
Yuri Osherov
Socrates
Aleksandr Andrievich
Artaxerxes
Marina Kazankova
Lucretia Borgia
Ekaterina Klimova
Jeanne d'Albret
- I
Ivan Lakshin
Nero
Crew
- Director — Karen Shakhnazarov
- Writer — Aleksandr Borodyanskiy
- Writer — Karen Shakhnazarov
- Director of Photography — Vladimir Klimov
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