
Person
Robert Sahakyants
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Aug 30, 1950
- Died
- Sep 24, 2009
- From
- Agdash, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]
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.
Images
Credits

Rob Saakyanc. The Last Hippy of the Pink City

Wind

The Lesson

Wow! A Talking Fish!

In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam...

Three Blue-Blue Lakes of Crimson Color

Wow, Butter Week!

Kikos

Who Will Tell A Fable?

The Resourceful Peasant

Lilith

Taverne

The Fox Book

I Am Armenian Too

The Axe

Signs of Intelligent Life

Victoria

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