Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2001-07-11
Runtime: 106 mins
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Writer: Aleksandr Borodyanskiy, Karen Shakhnazarov
Spoken language: Pусский
Genres: Comedy, History
Original title: Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
Production Companies: Kuryer Film Studio, Mosfilm
Production Countries: Russia
Cast
Ignat Akrachkov
Oleg Basilashvili
Zhanna Dudanova
Aleksandr Bashirov
Olga Tumaykina
Lyudmila Kasatkina
Andrei Panin
Yuri Osherov
Aleksandr Andrievich
Marina Kazankova
Ekaterina Klimova
Ivan Lakshin
Фёдор Шеленков
Dmitriy Dyuzhev
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