Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
17 audience votes
Key crew
- Karen ShakhnazarovDirector
- Aleksandr BorodyanskiyWriter
- Karen ShakhnazarovWriter
- Anatoli KrollOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Ignat AkrachkovVolkov
- Oleg BasilashviliProhorov / Pope Alexander VI
- 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 LakshinNero
Stills
Themes
poisoning