Director
Robert Sahakyants
August 30, 1950 · 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.
Often works with
Garri Bardin
4 titles together
In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam..., Three Blue-Blue Lakes of Crimson Color, Rob Saakyanc. The Last Hippy of the Pink City
Yaroslava Turylyova
3 titles together
In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam..., Who Will Tell A Fable?, Wow, Butter Week!
Artyom Karapetyan
2 titles together
Wow! A Talking Fish!, Wow, Butter Week!
Murad Kostanyan
2 titles together
Kikos, Unlucky Panos
Full filmography · 44
Rob Saakyanc. The Last Hippy of the Pink City
as (archive)
2010
Your First Animals
Director and Writer
2005
Ananas Bananas
Director and Writer
2004
Taverne
Director and Writer
2004
Signs of Intelligent Life
Director and Writer
2002
Yellow SubmarYAN
Director and Writer
2002
I Am Armenian Too
Director and Writer
2000
Our Yard 2.5
Director and Writer
1999
Optimus Mundus 4. The Best City on Earth
Director and Writer
1998
Victoria
Writer and Director
1997
L'arche
Director and Writer
1997
Elections
Director
1994