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The Mark of Caïn (2000)
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The Mark of Caïn is an exploration of life in The Zone, a term for the prison system in Samara, Russia. Through interviews with inmates, family members and prison officials, Lambert paints a grim picture, and focuses on the tradition of tattooing to do so.Life in any prison is tough, but the conditions depicted by Lambert are barely fathomable. Cells are so overcrowded that inmates must agree on who will stand and who will sleep. Lambert does a great job of imparting to us the importance of The Thieves Tradition of the caste system, without which arbitrary clashes would surely take a toll. From the Downcasts to the Godfather-esque Thieves-in-the-Law, inmate skins boast markings that measure a man's provenance - a second passport stamped with crimes committed and sentences served. The quality of the artwork is surprising, considering that the tattooing must be completed covertly with nothing more than a customized electric razor.The ageing generation of inmates offers observations that are cross-cultural. They frown upon the newer generation of inmates buying, rather than earning, the ink intended draw the required respect.The Mark of Caïn stamps an honour and order to an otherwise caged chaos.
Fick denna dokumentär i present och vart väldigt positivt överraskad. En film som går igenom det ryska fängelselivet där folk visar upp sina fängelsetatueringar. Sammanfattningen kan man läsa på engelska ovanför eller på imdb's hemsida. Kan vara intressant för de som är intresserade av bra dokumentärfilm, rysslands fängelseliv och de som gillar tatueringskonst. Kvaliten på vissa taggningar är verkligen imponerande med tanke på vad för medel finns och tillgå. Rekommenderas varmt.
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