Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
(2001)
★ 5.2 IMDb · 17 votes
Year: 2001
Runtime: 106 мин
Country: Russia
Director: Карен Шахназаров
Cast: Игнат Акрачков, Олег Басилашвили, Zhanna Dudanova, Александр Баширов, Ольга Тумайкина, Людмила Касаткина, Андрей Панин, Yuri Osherov, Александр Андриевич, Марина Казанкова
Plot
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.