

106 minutes
7/11/2001
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.

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

Ekaterina Klimova
as Jeanne d'Albret
Ivan Lakshin
as Nero
Фёдор Шеленков
as Caligula

Dmitriy Dyuzhev
as Edma Costa

Vasiliy Dolbitikov

Irina Kareva
as Larisa

Irina Leonova

Pavel Poymalov
as theater actor

Tatyana Monakhova

Pavel Vashchilin

Dillon Oloiede
Natalya Kulinkina

Aleksey Alekseev

Aleksandr Ablyazov
as poisoner