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A clip from the 2018 arthouse film by Garo Berberian about the life of Armenian Poet Taniel Varoujan titled "Taniel". Taniel Varoujan is captured writing his famous work "Antasdan" or the Four Corners of the Earth.
Taniel Varoujan was a renowned Armenian poet who is considered one of the greatest poets in the Armenian language, known for his four major volumes of poetry published between 1906 and 1921. He was tragically murdered at the age of 31 during the Armenian genocide, specifically on the day his son was born in 1915.
One of Varoujan's major works was The Song of the Bread (Հացին երգը) a fifty-page collection of poems. Confiscated during the genocide, it was an unfinished manuscript at the time of his death. Reportedly saved by bribing Turkish officials.
The Song of the Bread was published posthumously in 1921. The poems celebrate the simple majesty of village agricultural life led by Armenian peasant farmers.
More than anyone else of their time, Siamanto and Varoujan verbalized the hopes of the Armenians around the start of the 20th century. They used legends, old epics, and pagan mythology as a springboard for their work.
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