Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
movie

Released July 11, 2001
Overview
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

Ignat Akrachkov
as
Volkov

Oleg Basilashvili
as
Prohorov / Pope Alexander VI
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Zhanna Dudanova
as
Katya

Aleksandr Bashirov
as
Arnold Sharapov

Olga Tumaykina
as
Zoe Filimonova

Lyudmila Kasatkina
as
Evgenia Ivanovna Holodkova

Andrei Panin
as
Cesare Borgia

Yuri Osherov
as
Socrates

Aleksandr Andrievich
as
Artaxerxes

Marina Kazankova
as
Lucretia Borgia

Ekaterina Klimova
as
Jeanne d'Albret
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Ivan Lakshin
as
Nero
Crew

Karen Shakhnazarov
as
Director

Aleksandr Borodyanskiy
as
Writer

Karen Shakhnazarov
as
Writer

Lyudmila Kusakova
as
Production Design
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Anatoli Kroll
as
Original Music Composer
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Georgi Mukakevich
as
Producer

Svetlana Titova
as
Costume Design
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Galina Shadur
as
Producer
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Lidiya Milioti
as
Editor

Lyudmila Rauzhina
as
Makeup Department Head

Vladimir Klimov
as
Director of Photography