Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
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
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
