

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.
Movie Details
Languages
Russian
Studio
Kuryer Film Studio
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Key Crew

Karen Shakhnazarov
Director

Aleksandr Borodyanskiy
Writer

Karen Shakhnazarov
Writer
Cast

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
Zhanna Dudanova

Marina Kazankova
Lukretsiya Bordzhia

Ekaterina Klimova

Irina Leonova

Pavel Poymalov

Tatyana Monakhova

Pavel Vashchilin

Yuri Osherov

Dillon Oloiede
Natalya Kulinkina

Aleksey Alekseev

Aleksandr Ablyazov

Dmitriy Dyuzhev