The Mark of Cain x264 AAC

"the mark of cain"
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sailing ships, stars, angels and executioners the mark of cain chronicles the vanishing practice and
language of russian criminal tattoos. captured in some of russias 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 its 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. as early as the 1920s, russian prisons and gulag began to attract the attention of
researchers. the prisoners of the stalinist gulag, or "zone," as it is called, developed a complex social
structure that incorporated highly symbolic tattooing as a mark of rank. the very existence of these
inmates at prisons and forced labor camps was treated by the state as a deep secret, and their tattoo
art was considered a forbidden topic. in the last decade, russia's prison population has exploded;
overcrowding has reached unimaginable proportions. few other nations have had such a massive
prison population. the most conservative estimates suggest that in the last decades, over thirty million
of russia's inmates have had tattoos even though the process is against the law inside prison.
according to the book of genesis, god placed a mark on the world's first murderer before sending him
into exile. the mark of cain proclaimed its bearer as a criminal and social outcast; for centuries,
prisoners and those who broke social codes were forcibly tattooed. in russian prisons, tattooing
emerged as a visual mode of communication linked with social division. the mark of cain tells the story
of a fading art form and how that practice's death reflects transition in broader russian society. also
known as "to simadi tou kain". pink ghetto productions.

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thank you, docufan, for the links 🙂

no problem! i think i improved the matching today. fingers crossed 😉