Robert Sahakyants
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1950-08-30
Day of Death
2009-09-24 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
Agdash, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]
Robert Sahakyants
Biography
Robert Arshavirovich Sahakyants (Armenian: Ռոբերտ Սահակյանց, Russian: Роберт Аршавирович Саакянц, 30 August 1950 – 24 September 2009) was an Armenian animator in the former Soviet Union and Armenia. Sahakyants was born in Baku, in Soviet Azerbaijan, on 30 August 1950. In 1964, he and his family moved to Yerevan, Soviet Armenia.
Since 1970, he has worked at the Armenfilm film studio as an animator, and since 1972 as an animated director. He was the author of many cartoons and in 1987, was awarded the title of Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR. In the same year, his animated film, The Lesson, was shown at the Soviet Union film festival where it won an award. In 2008, he received the title of Honored Artist of Armenia.
He died on 24 September 2009 in Yerevan, Armenia. A memorial was erected in his honor in Yerevan in 2013.
Known For
Acting
(2010)
Rob Saakyanc. The Last Hippy of the Pink City
as (archive)
Crew
(2005)
Your First Animals
Director, Writer
(2004)
Taverne
Director, Script, Writer
(2004)
Ananas Bananas
Director, Writer
(2002)
Signs of Intelligent Life
Director, Writer, Camera Operator, Production Design
(2002)
Yellow SubmarYAN
Director, Writer, Camera Operator, Producer
(2000)
I Am Armenian Too
Director, Writer
(2000)
The Little One
Director, Writer, Animation, Production Design
(1999)
Our Yard 2.5
Director, Writer
(1998)
Optimus Mundus 4. The Best City on Earth
Director, Writer
(1997)
Victoria
Writer, Director
(1997)
L'arche
Director, Writer
(1994)
The Axe
Writer, Director
(1994)
(1994)
The Norfin Adventures: Castle of Doom
Director, Production Design
(1994)
Elections
Director
(1991)
Everything is Fine
Writer, Director, Editor, Production Design
(1990)
For You, Armenia
Director, Writer, Editor
(1989)
The Button
Director, Writer, Production Design
(1988)
Wind
Animation, Writer, Director
(1987)
Lesson
Animation, Director, Writer, Production Design
(1986)
The Resourceful Peasant
Director
(1985)
Wow, Butter Week!
Director, Writer
(1985)
Planet 888
Animation
(1985)
Who Painted the Red Sea?
Art Direction
(1984)
In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam...
Director, Writer
(1983)
Wow! A Talking Fish!
Director, Animation Director, Writer, Art Direction
(1983)
У попа была собака
Writer
(1983)
(1982)
Who Will Tell A Fable?
Director, Screenplay
(1981)
Three Blue-Blue Lakes of Crimson Color
Director, Screenplay
(1980)
Unlucky Panos
Writer, Animation
(1980)
Brave Nazar
Director
(1979)
Kikos
Director, Writer, Animation
(1979)
First
Director, Writer
(1977)
The Hunters
Director, Writer
(1976)
The Lazy Fox
Director
(1976)
To Prevent This from Happening
Animation
(1975)
The Fox Book
Director, Animation
(1975)
The Lazy One
Production Design
(1974)
How the Bears Fed the Whale
Writer, Director
(1974)
The Tale of the Snowman Darbulka
Director, Writer, Production Design
(1973)
Lilith
Director
(1973)
Invincible
Director, Writer
(1971)
Puy-Puy Mouse
Animation