Tjvjik

Tjvjik or Tzhvzhik Armenian tvik , Fried Liver is a 1961 Soviet Armenian short film by Arman Manaryan. Despite being Manaryans who was a student at the time first film and justminuteslong, Tjvjik is considered to be one of the classics of the Armenian film history.

The story is set in the city of Erzurum in Western Armenia, the Armenianpopulated area of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the 19th century. Nerses akhpar, a poor old man, goes to the local shop to buy food for his family. In a closeknit community, food was one of the main topics of discussion. Everybody knew through the grapevine what was on each others table for dinner. The status of town inhabitants was measured by the number of visits to the butcher shop, which was pretty much the center of the Armenian universe. Nikoghos agha, who is the owner of the shop, gives him liver for free. Every time they meet, Nikoghos agha reminds Nerses akhpar about the liver he gave away. At the end of the story, Nerses buys the liver he owned and after finding Nikoghos agha throws it into his face in the presence of several others screaming Here is your tjvjik. The 2006 book Armenian Food Facts, Fiction amp Folklore jokingly concludes Charity exacerbated the resentment felt by the recipient, modern psychoanalysts would say.Tjvjik is primarily significant, because it is the first ever film in the Western Armenian language. Western Armenian was spoken by the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and had came close to being extinct as a results of the Armenian Genocide. The film reflects the unassimilated life of Armenians under Turkish rule in the 19th century. Several lines and expression from the film had become idioms in the Armenian colloquial. For example the expression dont make a story about tjvjik . ........

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