

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.
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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
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