Robert Sahakyants
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 30, 1950
- Died
- September 24, 2009 (aged 59)
- Birthplace
- Agdash, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]
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
Filmography
Your First Animals
Movie · Director
Taverne
Movie · Director
Ananas Bananas
Movie · Director
Signs of Intelligent Life
Movie · Director
Yellow SubmarYAN
Movie · Director
I Am Armenian Too
Movie · Director
Our Yard 2.5
Movie · Director
Optimus Mundus 4. The Best City on Earth
Movie · Director
L'arche
Movie · Director
Victoria
Movie · Director
The Norfin Adventures: A Norfin Noel
Movie · Director
The Norfin Adventures: Castle of Doom
Movie · Director
The Axe
Movie · Director
Elections
Movie · Director
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie · Director
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
TV · Director · 1 ep
Everything is Fine
Movie · Director
For You, Armenia
Movie · Director
The Button
Movie · Director
Wind
Movie · Director
The Lesson
Movie · Director
The Resourceful Peasant
Movie · Director
Wow, Butter Week!
Movie · Director
In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam...
Movie · Director
The Resourceful Peasant
Movie · Director
Wow! A Talking Fish!
Movie · Director
Who Will Tell A Fable?
Movie · Director
Three Blue-Blue Lakes of Crimson Color
Movie · Director
Brave Nazar
Movie · Director
Kikos
Movie · Director
First
Movie · Director
The Hunters
Movie · Director
The Lazy Fox
Movie · Director
The Fox Book
Movie · Director
How the Bears Fed the Whale
Movie · Director
The Tale of the Snowman Darbulka
Movie · Director
Lilith
Movie · Director
Invincible
Movie · Director