Robert Sahakyants

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1950-08-30 (59 years old)

Deathday

2009-09-24

Place of Birth

Agdash, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]

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 wh...

Production

1988

Wind

as Animation

1987

Lesson

as Animation

1983

1983

Wow! A Talking Fish!

as Animation Director

1985

1979

Kikos

as Director

1982

1987

Lesson

as Director

1973

Lilith

as Director

2004

Taverne

as Director

2004

Taverne

as Script

1985

2000

1975

The Fox Book

as Director

2000

1979

Kikos

as Writer

1997

L'arche

as Writer

1979

First

as Director

1973

Invincible

as Director

1979

First

as Writer

1973

Invincible

as Writer

1988

Wind

as Writer

1997

Victoria

as Writer

1997

L'arche

as Director

1991

1994

The Axe

as Writer

1980

Unlucky Panos

as Writer

1980

Unlucky Panos

as Animation

1987

Lesson

as Writer

1976

The Lazy Fox

as Director

2004

2004

Ananas Bananas

as Director

1994

The Axe

as Director

1988

Wind

as Director

1982

2002

2002

Yellow SubmarYAN

as Director

1990

For You, Armenia

as Director

1987

Lesson

as Production Design

1985

Planet 888

as Animation

2004

Taverne

as Writer

2005

2005

1983

Wow! A Talking Fish!

as Art Direction

1989

The Button

as Writer

1991

1989

The Button

as Director

1980

Brave Nazar

as Director

2000

The Little One

as Director

1997

Victoria

as Director

1994

Elections

as Director

1977

The Hunters

as Director

1985

Who Painted the Red Sea?

as Art Direction

1971

Puy-Puy Mouse

as Animation

1975

The Fox Book

as Animation

1975

The Lazy One

as Production Design

2002

Signs of Intelligent Life

as Camera Operator

2002

Signs of Intelligent Life

as Production Design

2002

Yellow SubmarYAN

as Camera Operator

2002

Yellow SubmarYAN

as Producer

2000

2000

The Little One

as Animation

2000

The Little One

as Production Design

1990

1990

1991

1991

Everything is Fine

as Production Design

1989

The Button

as Production Design

1979

Kikos

as Animation

1977

The Hunters

as Writer

1974

1999

Our Yard 2.5

as Director

1999

Our Yard 2.5

as Writer

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