Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
Яды, или всемирная история отравлений
Release: 2001-07-11
·Runtime: 106m
·★ 4.9
Comedy
History
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.
Production Countries
Russia
Production Companies
Kuryer Film Studio
Mosfilm
Cast
Dmitriy Dyuzhev
as Edma Costa
Dillon Oloiede
Ignat Akrachkov
as Volkov
Yuri Osherov
as Socrates
Ekaterina Klimova
as Jeanne d'Albret
Vasiliy Dolbitikov
Pavel Vashchilin
Aleksandr Ablyazov
as poisoner
Lyudmila Kasatkina
as Evgenia Ivanovna Holodkova
Pavel Poymalov
as theater actor
Tatyana Monakhova
Aleksey Alekseev
Aleksandr Bashirov
as Arnold Sharapov
Olga Tumaykina
as Zoe Filimonova
Andrei Panin
as Cesare Borgia
Aleksandr Andrievich
as Artaxerxes
Irina Kareva
as Larisa
Irina Leonova
Oleg Basilashvili
as Prohorov / Pope Alexander VI
Marina Kazankova
as Lucretia Borgia
