Robert Sahakyants
Born: 1950-08-30 in Agdash, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]
Died: 2009-09-24
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2010
- Rob Saakyanc. The Last Hippy of the Pink City as (archive)
2009
- World History ... (Screenplay)
2005
- Your First Animals ... (Director)
2004
- Ananas Bananas ... (Director)
- Taverne ... (Director)
2002
- Yellow SubmarYAN ... (Director)
- Signs of Intelligent Life ... (Director)
2000
- The Little One ... (Director)
- I Am Armenian Too ... (Director)
1999
- Our Yard 2.5 ... (Director)
1998
- Optimus Mundus 4. The Best City on Earth ... (Director)
1994
- The Norfin Adventures: Castle of Doom ... (Director)
- The Axe ... (Writer)
- The Norfin Adventures: A Norfin Noel ... (Director)
- Elections ... (Director)
1992
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales ... (Director)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream ... (Director)
1991
- Everything is Fine ... (Writer)
1990
- For You, Armenia ... (Director)
1989
- The Button ... (Director)
1988
- Wind ... (Animation)
1987
- The Lesson ... (Animation)
1986
- Three fairy tales ... (Animation)
- The Resourceful Peasant ... (Director)
- Echo ... (Writer)
1985
- Who Painted the Red Sea? ... (Art Direction)
- Ո՞Վ Է ՔՈ ԸՆԿԵՐԸ ... (Animation Director)
- Wow, Butter Week! ... (Director)
- Planet 888 ... (Animation)
1984
- In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam... ... (Director)
- The Resourceful Peasant ... (Director)
1983
- Wow! A Talking Fish! ... (Director)
- The Little Farmer ... (Writer)
- The Priest Had A Dog ... (Writer)
- The Most Comfortable, Solid and Beautiful Home ... (Animation)
1982
- Who Will Tell A Fable? ... (Director)
1981
- A Thousand and One Tricks ... (Writer)
- Three Blue-Blue Lakes of Crimson Color ... (Director)
1980
- Brave Nazar ... (Director)
- Unlucky Panos ... (Writer)
1977
- The Hunters ... (Director)
1976
- To Prevent This from Happening ... (Animation)
- The Lazy Fox ... (Director)
1975
- The Lazy One ... (Production Design)
- The Fox Book ... (Director)
1974
- Abu-Hasan's Slippers ... (Animation)
- The Tale of the Snowman Darbulka ... (Director)
- How the Bears Fed the Whale ... (Writer)
1973
- Lilith ... (Director)
- Invincible ... (Director)
1971
- Puy-Puy Mouse ... (Animation)