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Robert Sahakyants

Director, Writer, Actor, Producer, Additional Credits
Born August 30, 1950Died September 24, 2009 (59 years)
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.

Known For

  • Wow, a Talking Fish!
  • Veter
  • Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
  • Taverne

Robert Sahakyants Filmography

1998
Our Yard · as Mesrop Mashtots

2004
Taverne · as Art Director
1992
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (TV Series) · as Production Designer
1988
Veter · as Animation
1985
Ish ty, maslenitsa! · as Art Director
1984
1983
Wow, a Talking Fish! · as Art Direction
1983
Wow, a Talking Fish! · as Animation Director
1982
Who Will Tell the Tale? · as Art Director

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