Russian Mafia Tattoos In Hollywood
- Filed under: Russian Mafia Tattoos Movies
- Date: Sep 9,2008
The most popular display of Russian Mafia Tattoos in a mainstream movie production would have to be on the body of Viggo Mortensen’s character in the David Cronenberg award winning film Eastern Promises. Cronenberg made it a point to place detailed attention on the symbolism and importance of the tattoos that prisoners and mafia members acquired.
Most people don’t know this, but before Eastern Promises there was an acclaimed documentary on Russian Mafia Tattoos released in 2000 titled The Mark of Cain, directed by Alix Lambert. This film goes into great detail to uncover the tradition, brutality, and practice of Russian Criminal Tattoos - some of the film is even shot in Russia’s fabled White Swan prison. More Russian Mafia Tattoos…
7 Responses for "Russian Mafia Tattoos In Hollywood"
So those are from a movie?
Great Article thanks.
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found this post really interesting thanks, could you please tell me more about this?
hi..great thx for the nice post. i will keep on watching you..tomorrow will be here again for your new posts.
me too)
The on eat the top of this page is nice, must have hurt though!
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