Poisons or the World History of Poisoning (2001)
Яды, или всемирная история отравлений
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.
- Date of release
- 2001-07-11
- TMDB
- 5.2 / 10 (17)
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Genres
- Comedy, History
- Director
- Karen Shakhnazarov
Casting
- Ignat Akrachkov — Volkov
- Oleg Basilashvili — Prohorov / Pope Alexander VI
- 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
- Ivan Lakshin — Nero
Interesting facts
Poisons or the World History of Poisoning is a 2001 Russian fantastical absurdist comedy directed by Karen Shakhnazarov.
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