THE MARK OF CAIN Alix Lambert (2001); (Russian Prison Tattoos Documentary) DVD
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THE MARK OF CAIN Alix Lambert (2001); DVD
Rare as shit ‘Russian Prison Tattoos Documentary’ DVD
Sailing ships, stars, angels and executioners, The Mark of Cain chronicles the vanishing practice and language of Russian Criminal Tattoos. Captured in some of Russia’s most notorious prisons, including the fabled White Swan, the film traces the animus of the flowers of this carnal art by way of the brutality of it’s origins: the penitentiary and the criminal environment. Incisive interviews with prisoners, guards, and criminologists reveal the secret language of The Zone and The Code of Thieves of the vory v zakone.
