Poisons or the World History of Poisoning

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.

Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov

Top 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

Ф

Фёдор Шеленков

Caligula

Dmitriy Dyuzhev

Edma Costa

Vasiliy Dolbitikov

Irina Kareva

Larisa

Irina Leonova

Pavel Poymalov

theater actor

Tatyana Monakhova

Pavel Vashchilin

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