Poisons or the World History of Poisoning

The story

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 & crew

Ignat AkrachkovVolkov

Oleg BasilashviliProhorov / Pope Alexander VI

Zhanna Dudanova

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 Lakshin

Ivan LakshinNero