Robert Sahakyants
Directing
- Born
- August 30, 1950 · Agdash, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]
- Died
- September 24, 2009 (age 59)
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.
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He died on 24 September 2009 in Yerevan, Armenia. A memorial was erected in his honor in Yerevan in 2013.
Known for
Wow! A Talking Fish!
March 31, 1983
In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam...
June 6, 1984
The Lesson
January 1, 1987
Who Will Tell A Fable?
January 1, 1982
Wind
January 1, 1988
Three Blue-Blue Lakes of Crimson Color
January 1, 1981
Wow, Butter Week!
January 1, 1985
Kikos
January 1, 1979
The Button
November 6, 1989
For You, Armenia
September 10, 1990
Unlucky Panos
January 1, 1980
Planet 888
April 12, 1985
Behind the camera51
- 2005Your First Animals Director, Writer
- 2004Ananas Bananas Director, Writer
- 2004Taverne Director, Script, Writer
- 2002Signs of Intelligent Life Director, Writer, Camera Operator, Production Design
- 2002Yellow SubmarYAN Director, Writer, Camera Operator, Producer
- 2000I Am Armenian Too Director, Writer
- 1999Our Yard 2.5 Director, Writer
- 1998Optimus Mundus 4. The Best City on Earth Director, Writer
- 1997Victoria Writer, Director
- 1997