Chokh Culture: in the Caucasus mountain range the Chokh culture emerged on the western side of the Caspian Sea, largely in today's Georgia and Azerbaijan, although some have placed it under the rather questionable umbrella of the Trialetian tradition.

২৩ জানুয়ারি ২০১৯ | 23 January 2019

I’ve written a letter for the superintendent. The law that has hanged me, that law also states each prisoner is granted a last wish before his execution. I do not know whether this law still stands, but if it truly exists then this is my last wish. Immediately after my hanging, both of my eyes be taken out. But with some care. Keep in mind that these two eyes of mine are saved.

Chokh, The Eyes (1982)

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The eye symbolizes a society divided into warring classes. It is a society where the official laws are bent and twisted to serve the interests of the propertied classes. But the working class retains its fighting spirit and its determination to protest and resist. The passions that a dead man's eyes arouse in the film symbolize the energy that the ideals of a struggling working class retain even after the physical death of a revolutionary worker.