In Martin Scorsese’s remake of ‘Cape Fear (1991)’, Max Cady (Robert De Niro) is arrested and waiting to be interrogated, when Lieutenant Elgart (Robert Mitchum) makes an interesting comment about Cady’s tattooed body: I don’t know whether to look at him or read him.
During the Sovjet era, Russian prisoners’ tattoos were to be read. KGB believed the tattoos were secret anti-government codes.
Danzig Baldaev was a Sovjet prison guard, and he documented the prisoners’ tattoos with his camera and with drawings. KGB unexpectively supported Baldaev, realising the importance of being able to establish facts about convicts by reading the images on their bodies. Baldaev’s documentation covers more than 3,000 tattoos.
Russian criminal tattoos have always had a significant meaning to the inmates. Both the motif and the placement on the body has symbolic meanings.
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