
Sergio Olhovich
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1941-10-09 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Sumatra, Dutch East Indies [now Sumatra, Indonesia]
Sergio Olhovich
Biography
Sergio Olhovich Greene (Sumatra, Indonesia, October 19, 1941) is a Russian-Mexican filmmaker.
The son of a Mexican mother and a Russian father, he lived in different countries such as Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador due to his father's work. He studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and lived in Paris from 1956 to 1957.2 He studied theater directing with Seki Sano in 1961 He entered the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM but received a scholarship to study at the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography, where he lived for eight years. He graduated as a film director in 1968. He taught at the University Center for Film Studies and at the Ibero-American University. His debut film was Doll Queen, in 1971.
He participated in companies such as Cinematográfica Marco Polo and DASA Films, and held various positions in the Directors Section of the Union of Cinematographic Production Workers (STPC). Since the 1960s, he was an active promoter in Mexico against the "closed door policy" of said union, that is, the refusal to enter new talents into the Mexican film industry due to the control exercised in the union by different characters forged in the so-called Golden Age of the cinema of that country. In this same tenor, he was a promoter of cinematographic cooperatives formed by the union of filmmakers and producers against the prevailing current in the cinema of Mexico of the seventies of low quality productions. The example of these cooperatives was the Río Mixcoac cooperative. It defended the making of artistic or author's films by participating in the Nuevo Cine collective.
Acting
(1971)
El Cambio
as El de la rotativa
(1969)
Crew
(2025)
1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil
Director, Screenplay, Producer
(2008)
Martha I Love You
Director, Writer
(2002)
Tzolkin
Director, Writer
(2001)
Malinalco
Writer, Director
(1999)
In the Shadow of the Moon
Director, Screenplay
(1996)
Lancaster Style
Director, Writer
(1994)
Lazaro Cardenas' Presidency
Director, Writer
(1993)
Fray Bartolomé de las Casas
Director, Writer
(1992)
Tabasco Carnival Exhibition
Director, Writer
(1990)
How Did I Come to Fall in Love With You?
Director, Writer
(1989)
A Christmas Carol
Director
(1988)
Hope
Director, Writer
(1988)
Angel River
Director
(1983)
Leopoldo Mendez
Director, Writer
(1982)
Time Management
Director, Writer
(1981)
The Sowing of Others
Writer, Director
(1981)
Parastatal Textile Industry in Mexico
Director, Writer
(1981)
Everyone's Hell so Feared
Screenplay, Director
(1980)
The Coffee Tree Fungus
Writer, Director
(1979)
Year 2000
Director, Writer
(1978)
Drizzle
Director, Writer, Screenplay
(1976)
Coronation
Writer, Editor, Director
(1976)
2nd Congress of Indigenous Peoples
Director, Writer
(1976)
El Politécnico Nacional
Director, Writer
(1976)
The House in the South
Director, Writer
(1975)
White Villages: Standing and fighting
Director, Writer
(1974)
The Encounter of a Lonely Man
Screenplay, Director
(1973)
Evasion
Director, Writer, Editor, Cinematography
(1972)
Queen Doll
Director, Writer
(1970)
Tribute to Leopoldo Mendez
Director, Writer
(1968)
The Drizzle
Director, Producer, Writer
(1965)
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Director, Writer
(1964)
Ballad
Director, Writer
(1963)
The Changing of the Guard in Red Square
Director, Writer
(1962)
Moscow River in Winter
Director, Writer