Directing

Ռոբերտ Սահակյանց

Ռոբերտ Սահակյանց er mest kendt for Shakespeare: The Animated Tales og Всемирная история. Ռոբերտ Սահակյանց er født 30. august 1950. Ռոբերտ Սահակյանց døde 24. september 2009, 59 år gammel.

Født: 30. august 1950
Fødested: Agdash, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]
Død: 24. september 2009 (59 år)

Biografi

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.