Robert Sahakyants
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 30, 1950, Agdash, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]
- Died
- September 24, 2009
- Movies
- 43
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2010 | Rob Saakyanc. The Last Hippy of the Pink City | (archive) |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2005 | Your First Animals | Director, Writer |
| 2004 | Ananas Bananas | Director, Writer |
| 2004 | Taverne | Director, Writer |
| 2002 | Signs of Intelligent Life | Director, Writer |
| 2002 | Yellow SubmarYAN | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2000 | I Am Armenian Too | Director, Writer |
| 1999 | Our Yard 2.5 | Director, Writer |
| 1998 | Optimus Mundus 4. The Best City on Earth | Director, Writer |
| 1997 | Victoria | Writer, Director |
| 1997 | L'arche | Director, Writer |
| 1994 | Elections | Director |
| 1994 | The Norfin Adventures: A Norfin Noel | Director |
| 1994 | The Norfin Adventures: Castle of Doom | Director |
| 1994 | The Axe | Writer, Director |
| 1992 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Director |
| 1991 | Everything is Fine | Writer, Director |
| 1990 | For You, Armenia | Director, Writer |
| 1989 | The Button | Director, Writer |
| 1988 | Wind | Writer, Director |
| 1987 | The Lesson | Director, Writer |
| 1986 | The Resourceful Peasant | Director |
| 1986 | Echo | Writer |
| 1985 | Wow, Butter Week! | Director, Writer |
| 1984 | In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam... | Director, Writer |
| 1984 | The Resourceful Peasant | Director |
| 1983 | Wow! A Talking Fish! | Director, Writer |
| 1983 | The Priest Had A Dog | Writer |
| 1983 | The Little Farmer | Writer |
| 1982 | Who Will Tell A Fable? | Director, Screenplay |
| 1981 | Three Blue-Blue Lakes of Crimson Color | Director, Screenplay |
| 1981 | A Thousand and One Tricks | Writer |
| 1980 | Brave Nazar | Director |
| 1980 | Unlucky Panos | Writer |
| 1979 | Kikos | Director, Writer |
| 1979 | First | Director, Writer |
| 1977 | The Hunters | Director, Writer |
| 1976 | The Lazy Fox | Director |
| 1975 | The Fox Book | Director |
| 1974 | The Tale of the Snowman Darbulka | Director, Writer |
| 1974 | How the Bears Fed the Whale | Writer, Director |
| 1973 | Invincible | Director, Writer |
| 1973 | Lilith | Director |
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