Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
2001 · 106 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 445 VOTES · DIR. Karen Shakhnazarov
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 989 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:07 MOSFILM
00:03:11 Zvantsev said it in so many words.
00:09:21 And even worse.
00:15:51 and took up
00:20:25 That was two and a half thousand years ago.
00:24:53 Pope Alexander VI liked to poison his cardinals with it.
00:28:38 Persian Queen Parisatida
00:33:00 Now sit down to table, I'll serve it.
00:38:44 not Evgenia Ivanovna.
00:42:02 - Get outa here, you bastard. - What?
00:45:01 - Yes. - And that guy
00:48:08 Poor Jeanne wore them at a ball. Poisonous fumes got into her brain
00:53:51 Who wouldn't want to roll up his posh Jaguar
00:58:01 You don't want us to live on the street, do you?
01:01:00 When night descends onto the city, I am thinking of you.
01:04:13 looking into the hall.
01:10:03 God bless me!
01:17:05 Now to the point. You got the gloves?
01:19:49 We'll ask them to have meat rolls
01:22:32 That's it for now.
01:26:29 She poisoned her father.
01:30:26 My mother bought it with her own money.
01:33:50 and chopped my head off.
01:40:04 Oleg is still treading the stage - and not without success.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed989
Dialogue density9.3 lines / min
First line00:00:07
Final line01:40:04
Production Record
DirectorKaren Shakhnazarov
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes445