Robert Sahakyants

Director

Robert Sahakyants

Born August 30, 1950 in Agdash, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]Died September 24, 200937 films

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.

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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.

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Wow! A Talking Fish! posterFirst watchWow! A Talking Fish!19838.0Their style at its most typical, and among their best-rated work.A fisherman catches a talking fish and spares its life. After that, he meets a grotesque, evil monster in a state of constant change.View film

Filmography

37 films as director
  1. 2005Your First AnimalsDirector
  2. 2004Ananas BananasDirector
  3. 2004TaverneDirector
  4. 2002Signs of Intelligent LifeDirector
  5. 2002Yellow SubmarYANDirector
  6. 2000I Am Armenian TooDirector
  7. 1999Our Yard 2.5Director
  8. 1998Optimus Mundus 4. The Best City on EarthDirector
  9. 1997VictoriaDirector
  10. 1997L'archeDirector
  11. 1994ElectionsDirector
  12. 1994The Norfin Adventures: A Norfin NoelDirector
  13. 1994The Norfin Adventures: Castle of DoomDirector
  14. 1994The AxeDirector
  15. 1992A Midsummer Night's DreamDirector
  16. 1991Everything is FineDirector
  17. 1990For You, ArmeniaDirector
  18. 1989The ButtonDirector
  19. 1988WindDirector
  20. 1987The LessonDirector
  21. 1986The Resourceful PeasantDirector
  22. 1985Wow, Butter Week!Director
  23. 1984In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam...Director
  24. 1984The Resourceful PeasantDirector
  25. 1983Wow! A Talking Fish!Director
  26. 1982Who Will Tell A Fable?Director
  27. 1981Three Blue-Blue Lakes of Crimson ColorDirector
  28. 1980Brave NazarDirector
  29. 1979KikosDirector
  30. 1979FirstDirector
  31. 1977The HuntersDirector
  32. 1976The Lazy FoxDirector
  33. 1975The Fox BookDirector
  34. 1974The Tale of the Snowman DarbulkaDirector
  35. 1974How the Bears Fed the WhaleDirector
  36. 1973InvincibleDirector
  37. 1973LilithDirector