The Documentary Sales Company 
Deckert Distribution presents:
Blue Skin

Blue Skin
Flammend' Herz

Country of production
Germany/ Switzerland

Year of production
2004

Format
35mm

Length
92 min

Director
Andrea Schuler and Oliver Ruts

Production
Egoli Tossell Film AG in co-production with Cobra Film, ZDF/ Kleines Fernsehspiel and SFDRS

Herbert, the prosperous entrepreneur living amongst post-card Swiss mountains. Karlmann, son of one of Northern Germany's richest families. And Albert, the olde-style sailor. Three lifelong friends who devoted their lives to a common passion when this was seriously taboo: tattooing.

At first, the three give the impression of friendly, polite and well-to-do gentlemen around 90. And that´s exactly what they are. But once they take off their shirts, their blue tattooed skin tells dramatic stories of a life firmly on the other side of convention.

Emotional stories of love and love lost, of friendship and betrayal, of standing up for what you believe in against all odds. BLUE SKIN is the loveable, sometimes tragic, sometimes very funny account of how the three once met, why they find it hard to get on nowadays and whether there's any hope of making up. And through their biographies, we catch a glimpse of more than one century of one the world's most beautiful addictions: tattooing.
 

Original Language: German
English Subtitles