Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
2001, Russian. Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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Cast & crew
- Karen ShakhnazarovDirector
- Ignat AkrachkovVolkov
- Oleg BasilashviliProhorov / Pope Alexander VI
- Zhanna DudanovaKatya
- Aleksandr BashirovArnold Sharapov
- Olga TumaykinaZoe Filimonova
- Lyudmila KasatkinaEvgenia Ivanovna Holodkova
- Andrei PaninCesare Borgia
- Yuri OsherovSocrates
- Aleksandr AndrievichArtaxerxes
- Marina KazankovaLucretia Borgia
- Ekaterina KlimovaJeanne d'Albret
- Ivan LakshinNero
Details
- Released
- 11 July 2001
- Original title
- Яды, или всемирная история отравлений
- Country
- Russia
- Written by
- Aleksandr Borodyanskiy, Karen Shakhnazarov
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Poisons or the World History of Poisoning (2001) was directed by Karen Shakhnazarov and stars Ignat Akrachkov, Oleg Basilashvili, Zhanna Dudanova.