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.

Directed

1. Wow! A Talking Fish! (1983) — Director
2. In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam... (1984) — Director
3. Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992) — Director
4. The Lesson (1987) — Director
5. Who Will Tell A Fable? (1982) — Director
6. Wind (1988) — Director
7. Three Blue-Blue Lakes of Crimson Color (1981) — Director
8. Wow, Butter Week! (1985) — Director
9. Kikos (1979) — Director
10. The Button (1989) — Director
11. For You, Armenia (1990) — Director
12. The Fox Book (1975) — Director
13. First (1979) — Director
14. Brave Nazar (1980) — Director
15. Everything is Fine (1991) — Director
16. Elections (1994) — Director
17. The Resourceful Peasant (1986) — Director
18. Lilith (1973) — Director
19. Taverne (2004) — Director
20. I Am Armenian Too (2000) — Director
21. How the Bears Fed the Whale (1974) — Director
22. Signs of Intelligent Life (2002) — Director
23. Invincible (1973) — Director
24. L'arche (1997) — Director
25. The Norfin Adventures: A Norfin Noel (1994) — Director
26. The Norfin Adventures: Castle of Doom (1994) — Director
27. The Lazy Fox (1976) — Director
28. Ananas Bananas (2004) — Director
29. The Axe (1994) — Director
30. Yellow SubmarYAN (2002) — Director
31. Your First Animals (2005) — Director
32. Victoria (1997) — Director
33. The Hunters (1977) — Director
34. The Tale of the Snowman Darbulka (1974) — Director
35. Optimus Mundus 4. The Best City on Earth (1998) — Director
36. Our Yard 2.5 (1999) — Director
37. The Resourceful Peasant (1984) — Director
38. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1992) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Rob Saakyanc. The Last Hippy of the Pink City (2010) — (archive)