Alix Lambert's The Mark of Cain
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Actor: variouisBrand: MICROCINEMA INC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Russian (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 73 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Microcinema DVD
DVD Reviews of Alix Lambert's The Mark of Cain
DVD Review: One of most important documentaries on Russia
Summary: 5 Stars
The Mark of Cain is the macro lens. On the surface, this incredible documentary by Alix Lambert is an excruciatingly tight close-up of tattoos and their role in Russia's criminal world. Yet it turns out this is only a device to look at larger issues, at the role of prisons and crime in Russia. Amazingly, Lambert and her film crew gained access to Russian prisons and - even more remarkably - got prisoners to talk openly about their lives (and tattoos). As a result, this is one of the most important documentaries on Russia to emerge in the last 15 years. Honest, revealing, heart-breaking, it is a superb work of journalism. (Reviewed in Russian Life)DVD Review: Stunning
Summary: 5 Stars
This documentary is beautifully filmed. It is an amazing view into this small world made up of fascinating contrasts. The tattoos themselves seem to encompass it all, the beauty, the sadness, the organization that the prisoners have created in their community of exaggerated human condition, and the reality of the crimes that the tattoos represent. DVD Review: AMAZING
Summary: 5 Stars
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R29UST37HXB5UU DVD Review: Extremely well done documentary
Summary: 5 Stars
The video does a great job of documenting life in a Russian prison. While not as detailed in the history and meaning of individual symbols as the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedias by Danzig Baldaev et al. it does a wonderful job of capturing the stories of a number of prisoners. Hearing their tones of voice and seeing their expressions convey the emotion much more than any book possibly could. Also of note, it covers the recent changes where wealthy criminals or people wanting to emulate the Vory v Zakone, "Thieves with a Code," are copying the tattoos or buying their way into the status of Vor, without regard to the code of the Vory. The stories of the prisoners are so compelling and the emotion so well captured I think this film would be appreciated by a wide audience, and not just people with interests in tattoos, Russia, organized crime, or prison life.DVD Review: a riveting education
Summary: 5 Stars
The opening scene of Alix Lambert's "The Mark of Cain" immediately draws the viewer into the Russian prison system with a haunting song that sets the mood. This remarkable and highly effective film goes on to introduce music and light and air into a dreary, dark, and fetid world never before laid bare. It was compiled from countless hours of footage revealing the inmates' stories, the age-old evolving tattoo culture, and the politics and psychology of a hidden subworld. It is in no way a pompous, voice-over lesson. It is composed of the prisoners' own words as they tell how their society is structured, why they have been relegated to it, what their pasts consisted of, and what they dream of. A few of them are chilling, many are quite charming. There is palpable, unspoken compassion in this presentation that lets us absorb a wealth of disturbing information about humanity and inhumanity.
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