ARMENFILM 1984
The Resourceful Peasant
There once lived a king.
And a terrible misfortune befell this king:
whatever he ate seemed tasteless to him.
It's because the cook is bad.
Bring him,
question him,
and punish him.
The punishment was terrible.
The cook was forced to eat the poisons that he himself had concocted.
Years passed.
The cook got fatter,
and the king got thinner.
...
Sovereign, why think such evil thoughts?
You must eat.
After all, it is said,
"appetite comes with eating".
Scoundrels! They feed awful swill to the king,
and eat the best morsels themselves!
Executioner!
Spare us... Sovereign! Please, spare us!
Give us time to think of how to cure you!
All right, think.
Think for three days.
Every peasant and townsman
must treat our Sovereign
to the best morsel from his table.
And what if the king does not like what I treat him to?
No problem!
They'll cut your head off -
like this!
And so, people began to be cunning and deceitful.
Yuck, how awful!
This is like grass, not watermelon!
Disgusting honey!
Poison! Poison! Who wants natural bee poison?
Eat, son. To your health!
Thank you, father. It's very tasty.
The cheese is also tasty!
The bread, too!
"Tasty", you say?
Of course it's tasty. Very tasty, brother.
Guards!
Forward!
You dared to hide away the tastiest morsel from your table!
The very morsel that would have returned Thy Sovereign's appetite!
Execute him immediately!
...
Wait a bit, Sovereign.
I can cure you.
I know a magic treatment.
The treatment must be prepared...
...from this wheat.
But you must do it yourself,
or the treatment will lose its power.
Tasty.
Very!
This treatment is magical!
Of course it is.
Because you prepared it with your own hands.
Your very own.