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.
00:09:25 you are not just disgraced, your defiler
00:15:58 Stepanov Nikolai.
00:20:40 Trust me, this is the only right decision
00:25:09 No, I can't.
00:29:13 The Persian King Xerxes
00:35:45 I've brought you some potatoes.
00:39:09 That famous Neapolitan poisoness Tofana
00:42:32 Tomorrow you'll take off from your apartment like a shot from the gun.
00:45:38 Having less potent grounds
00:50:41 What's the matter with her?
00:54:32 Gentlemen, poison every one of those
00:58:47 Where would he go?
01:02:14 Why do you ask?
01:06:13 Cesare broke down the door
01:15:01 I don't know.
01:18:13 Who is he?
01:21:04 Hold it.
01:24:36 Evgenia Ivanovna Kholodkova.
01:27:35 Lucrezia!
01:32:31 Okay. Now the fir-tree will thaw out
01:37:33 young Cesare Borgia was heading to Rome
10:15:00 into an ambush.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed989
Dialogue density9.3 lines / min
First line00:00:07
Final line10:15:00
Production Record
DirectorKaren Shakhnazarov
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes445