Robert Sahakyants
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.
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Movies (52)
Rob Saakyanc. The Last Hippy of the Pink City
2010 · (archive)
Your First Animals
2005 · Director, Writer
Ananas Bananas
2004 · Director, Writer
Taverne
2004 · Director, Script, Writer
Signs of Intelligent Life
2002 · Director, Writer, Camera Operator, Production Design
Yellow SubmarYAN
2002 · Director, Writer, Camera Operator, Producer
I Am Armenian Too
2000 · Director, Writer
Our Yard 2.5
1999 · Director, Writer
Optimus Mundus 4. The Best City on Earth
1998 · Director, Writer
Victoria
1997 · Writer, Director
L'arche
1997 · Director, Writer
Elections
1994 · Director
The Norfin Adventures: A Norfin Noel
1994 · Director
The Norfin Adventures: Castle of Doom
1994 · Director, Production Design
The Axe
1994 · Writer, Director
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1992 · Director
Everything is Fine
1991 · Writer, Director, Editor, Production Design
For You, Armenia
1990 · Director, Writer, Editor
The Button
1989 · Director, Writer, Production Design
Wind
1988 · Animation, Writer, Director
The Lesson
1987 · Animation, Director, Writer, Production Design
The Resourceful Peasant
1986 · Director
Echo
1986 · Writer
Three fairy tales
1986 · Animation
Planet 888
1985 · Animation
Who Painted the Red Sea?
1985 · Art Direction
Wow, Butter Week!
1985 · Director, Writer
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1985 · Animation Director
In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam...
1984 · Director, Writer
The Resourceful Peasant
1984 · Director, Animation
Wow! A Talking Fish!
1983 · Director, Animation Director, Writer, Art Direction
The Priest Had A Dog
1983 · Writer
The Most Comfortable, Solid and Beautiful Home
1983 · Animation
The Little Farmer
1983 · Writer
Who Will Tell A Fable?
1982 · Director, Screenplay
Three Blue-Blue Lakes of Crimson Color
1981 · Director, Screenplay
A Thousand and One Tricks
1981 · Writer
Brave Nazar
1980 · Director
Unlucky Panos
1980 · Writer, Animation
Kikos
1979 · Director, Writer, Animation
First
1979 · Director, Writer
The Hunters
1977 · Director, Writer
The Lazy Fox
1976 · Director
To Prevent This from Happening
1976 · Animation
The Lazy One
1975 · Production Design
The Fox Book
1975 · Director, Animation
The Tale of the Snowman Darbulka
1974 · Director, Writer, Production Design
How the Bears Fed the Whale
1974 · Writer, Director
Abu-Hasan's Slippers
1974 · Animation
Invincible
1973 · Director, Writer
Lilith
1973 · Director
Puy-Puy Mouse
1971 · Animation
