Director
Robert Sahakyants
76 years · Agdash, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan] · 43 films
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 for
Filmography 43
Rob Saakyanc. The Last Hippy of the Pink City
2010 · (archive)
Your First Animals
2005 · Director, Writer
Ananas Bananas
2004 · Writer, Director
Taverne
2004 · Director, Writer
Signs of Intelligent Life
2002 · Director, Writer
Yellow SubmarYAN
2002 · Director, Writer
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 · Writer, Director
Elections
1994 · Director
The Norfin Adventures: A Norfin Noel
1994 · Director
The Norfin Adventures: Castle of Doom
1994 · Director
The Axe
1994 · Writer, Director
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1992 · Director
Everything is Fine
1991 · Writer, Director
For You, Armenia
1990 · Director, Writer
The Button
1989 · Writer, Director
Wind
1988 · Writer, Director
The Lesson
1987 · Director, Writer
The Resourceful Peasant
1986 · Director
Echo
1986 · Writer
Wow, Butter Week!
1985 · Director, Writer