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.

He died on 24 September 2009 in Yerevan, Armenia. A memorial was erected in his honor in Yerevan in 2013.

Movie

Wow! A Talking Fish!

1983

Movie

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

1984

TV Show

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

1992

Movie

Who Will Tell A Fable?

1982

Movie

Wind

1988

Movie

Lesson

1987

Movie

Wow, Butter Week!

1985

Movie

Three Blue-Blue Lakes of Crimson Color

1981