Directing
Community Rating
6.3
TMDB estimate
Born
August 30, 1950
Died
September 24, 2009 (age 59)
Born in
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.
Rob Saakyanc. The Last Hippy of the Pink City
as (archive)
2010
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World History
as Screenplay, Creator
2009
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Your First Animals
as Director, Writer
2005
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Ananas Bananas
as Writer, Director
2004
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Taverne
as Director, Script, Writer
2004
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Signs of Intelligent Life
as Director, Writer, Camera Operator, Production Design
2002
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Yellow SubmarYAN
as Writer, Director, Camera Operator, Producer
2002
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The Little One
as Director, Writer, Animation, Production Design
2000
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I Am Armenian Too
as Writer, Director
2000
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Our Yard 2.5
as Director, Writer
1999
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Optimus Mundus 4. The Best City on Earth
as Director, Writer
1998
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Victoria
as Writer, Director
1997
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L'arche
as Writer, Director
1997
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Elections
as Director
1994
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The Norfin Adventures: A Norfin Noel
as Director
1994
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The Norfin Adventures: Castle of Doom
as Director, Production Design
1994
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The Axe
as Writer, Director
1994
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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Director
1992
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Director
1992
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Everything is Fine
as Writer, Director, Editor, Production Design
1991
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