Poisons or the World History of Poisoning | FULL MOVIE | by Karen Shakhnazarov

Theater actor Oleg Volkov is sure that his wife is cheating on him. With a heavy heart, he sits in a bar and thinks what to do. The imposing pensioner Ivan Petrovich meets Oleg, with whom the deceived husband shares his problems. And Ivan Petrovich has a solution! It is necessary to simply ... poison the unfaithful spouse. After all, this method is as old as the world. At one time, Socrates took hemlock poison when the Athenian court sentenced him to death... And the time in the film went back, taking viewers to ancient Persia and medieval Rome, to the great poisonings of all eras and peoples - from the stories of the Persian king Xerxes to Catherine de Medici . In general, the world history of poisonings begins. Year of production: 2001 Directed by: Karen Shakhnazarov Writed by: Alexander Borodyansky, Karen Shakhnazarov Music: Anatoly Kroll Operator: Vladimir Klimov Production designer: Lyudmila Kusakova Starting: Oleg Basilashvili, Lyudmila Kasatkina, Andrey Panin,