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Poisons or the World History of Poisoning

Poisons or the World History of Poisoning

★ 5.2/10•2001•1h 46m•12+•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.

Karen Shakhnazarov · Director

Aleksandr Borodyanskiy · Writer

Karen Shakhnazarov · Writer

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 46m
LanguageRU
Release DateJul 11, 2001

Actors

Ignat Akrachkov

Ignat Akrachkov

Volkov

Oleg Basilashvili

Oleg Basilashvili

Prohorov / Pope Alexander VI

Zhanna Dudanova

Katya

Aleksandr Bashirov

Aleksandr Bashirov

Arnold Sharapov

Olga Tumaykina

Olga Tumaykina

Zoe Filimonova

Lyudmila Kasatkina

Lyudmila Kasatkina

Evgenia Ivanovna Holodkova

Andrei Panin

Andrei Panin

Cesare Borgia

Yuri Osherov

Yuri Osherov

Socrates

Aleksandr Andrievich

Aleksandr Andrievich

Artaxerxes

Marina Kazankova

Marina Kazankova

Lucretia Borgia

Ekaterina Klimova

Ekaterina Klimova

Jeanne d'Albret

Ivan Lakshin

Nero

Фёдор Шеленков

Caligula

Dmitriy Dyuzhev

Dmitriy Dyuzhev

Edma Costa

Vasiliy Dolbitikov

Vasiliy Dolbitikov

Irina Kareva

Irina Kareva

Larisa

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