Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
Release Date: 2001-07-11
Rating : 5.1/10
Duration : 106 minutes
Genres : Comedy, History
Director : Karen Shakhnazarov
Writer : Aleksandr Borodyanskiy, 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.
Cast
Oleg Basilashvili
Ignat Akrachkov
Aleksandr Bashirov
Lyudmila Kasatkina
Andrei Panin
Olga Tumaykina