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Sergio Olhovich

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
2

Gender
Male

Birthday
October 9, 1941 (84 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.

Known For

Directing

20251938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil...Director
2008Martha I Love You...Director
2002Tzolkin...Director
2001Malinalco...Director
1999In the Shadow of the Moon...Director
1996Lancaster Style...Director
1994Lazaro Cardenas' Presidency...Director
1993Fray Bartolomé de las Casas...Director
1992Tabasco Carnival Exhibition...Director
1990How Did I Come to Fall in Love With You?...Director
1989A Christmas Carol...Director
1988Hope...Director
1988Angel River...Director
1983Leopoldo Mendez...Director
1982Time Management...Director
1981Everyone's Hell So Feared...Director
1981The Sowing of Others...Director
1981Parastatal Textile Industry in Mexico...Director
1980The Coffee Tree Fungus...Director
1979Year 2000...Director
1978Drizzle...Director
1976The House in the South...Director
1976Coronation...Director
19762nd Congress of Indigenous Peoples...Director
1976El Politécnico Nacional...Director
1975White Villages: Standing and fighting...Director
1974The Encounter of a Lonely Man...Director
1973Evasion...Director
1972Queen Doll...Director
1970Tribute to Leopoldo Mendez...Director
1965The Death of Artemio Cruz...Director
1964Ballad...Director
1963The Changing of the Guard in Red Square...Director
1962Moscow River in Winter...Director

Writing

20251938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil...Screenplay
2008Martha I Love You...Writer
2002Tzolkin...Writer
2001Malinalco...Writer
1999In the Shadow of the Moon...Screenplay
1996Lancaster Style...Writer
1994Lazaro Cardenas' Presidency...Writer
1993Fray Bartolomé de las Casas...Writer
1993Hoy no circula...Story
1992Tabasco Carnival Exhibition...Writer
1990How Did I Come to Fall in Love With You?...Writer
1988Hope...Writer
1983Leopoldo Mendez...Writer
1982Time Management...Writer
1981Everyone's Hell So Feared...Screenplay
1981The Sowing of Others...Writer
1981Parastatal Textile Industry in Mexico...Writer
1980The Coffee Tree Fungus...Writer
1979Year 2000...Writer
1978Drizzle...Writer
1978Drizzle...Screenplay
1976The House in the South...Writer
1976Coronation...Writer
19762nd Congress of Indigenous Peoples...Writer
1976El Politécnico Nacional...Writer
1975White Villages: Standing and fighting...Writer
1974The Encounter of a Lonely Man...Screenplay
1973Evasion...Writer
1972Queen Doll...Writer
1970Tribute to Leopoldo Mendez...Writer
1965The Death of Artemio Cruz...Writer
1964Ballad...Writer
1963The Changing of the Guard in Red Square...Writer
1962Moscow River in Winter...Writer

Production

20251938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil...Producer

Editing

1976Coronation...Editor
1973Evasion...Editor

Crew

1973Evasion...Cinematography

Acting

1971El Cambioas El de la rotativa
1969Barrel makeras