Tattoo (2002)

The German thriller Tattoo is in many ways a descendant of modern American genre classics like The Silence of the Lambs and most notably Se7en. Fresh out of police school Marc Schrader (Diehl) only has one goal: to get a desk job in which he intends to do as little as possible for his money. Instead Schrader ends up working together with Minks (Redl), a homicide detective who picked the streetwise youngster out of a bunch of aspiring greenhorns. However, Minks had personal reasons for doing so. He hopes that Schrader’s contacts in the underground youth culture might help him find his wayward daughter Marie (Schwiers), a malcontent who ran away about two years ago. Be that as it may, first of all Schrader and Minks have to deal with a serial killer who skins his victims. It turns out that the killer is on the prowl for all tattoos made by a deceased Japanese master with the last one remaining being on the back of Maya Kroner (Brennicke), a friend of one of the murder victims... Leading lady Nadeshda Brennicke shows off every inch of her body on various occasions. Aside from many (fake) tattoos this also includes excellent shots of the brown-eyed blonde’s perfectly enhanced robo-hooters as well as her neatly trimmed bush when she “models” for the cops. Additional full frontal nudity can be found in the opening sequence – this time from newcomer Christiane Scheda who walks the streets of Berlin sans clothes before taking the bus. Tattoo doubtlessly is a skinful movie – by any means!!!