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
Volkov
Oleg Basilashvili
Prohorov / Pope Alexander VI
Zhanna Dudanova
Katya
Aleksandr Bashirov
Arnold Sharapov
Olga Tumaykina
Zoe Filimonova
Lyudmila Kasatkina
Evgenia Ivanovna Holodkova
Andrei Panin
Cesare Borgia
Yuri Osherov
Socrates
Aleksandr Andrievich
Artaxerxes
Marina Kazankova
Lucretia Borgia
Ekaterina Klimova
Jeanne d'Albret
Ivan Lakshin
Nero
Фёдор Шеленков
Caligula
Dmitriy Dyuzhev
Edma Costa
Vasiliy Dolbitikov
Unknown
Irina Kareva
Larisa
Irina Leonova
Unknown
Pavel Poymalov
theater actor
Tatyana Monakhova
Unknown
Pavel Vashchilin
Unknown
Dillon Oloiede
Unknown
Natalya Kulinkina
Unknown
Aleksey Alekseev
Unknown
Aleksandr Ablyazov
poisoner
Crew
Karen Shakhnazarov
Director, Writer
Aleksandr Borodyanskiy
Writer
Lidiya Milioti
Editor
Vladimir Klimov
Director of Photography
Georgi Mukakevich
Producer
Galina Shadur
Producer
Lyudmila Kusakova
Production Design
Svetlana Titova
Costume Design
Lyudmila Rauzhina
Makeup Department Head
Anatoli Kroll
Original Music Composer
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