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-c…

Directed

1. How Did I Come to Fall in Love With You? (1990) — Director
2. Hope (1988) — Director
3. Drizzle (1978) — Director
4. Everyone's Hell So Feared (1981) — Director
5. Queen Doll (1972) — Director
6. Coronation (1976) — Director
7. In the Shadow of the Moon (1999) — Director
8. The Encounter of a Lonely Man (1974) — Director
9. The House in the South (1976) — Director
10. 1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil (2025) — Director
11. Tribute to Leopoldo Mendez (1970) — Director
12. Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (1993) — Director
13. Angel River (1988) — Director
14. A Christmas Carol (1989) — Director
15. Tabasco Carnival Exhibition (1992) — Director
16. The Sowing of Others (1981) — Director
17. Leopoldo Mendez (1983) — Director
18. Evasion (1973) — Director
19. The Coffee Tree Fungus (1980) — Director
20. Moscow River in Winter (1962) — Director
21. The Changing of the Guard in Red Square (1963) — Director
22. Ballad (1964) — Director
23. The Death of Artemio Cruz (1965) — Director
24. White Villages: Standing and fighting (1975) — Director
25. 2nd Congress of Indigenous Peoples (1976) — Director
26. El Politécnico Nacional (1976) — Director
27. Year 2000 (1979) — Director
28. Parastatal Textile Industry in Mexico (1981) — Director
29. Lazaro Cardenas' Presidency (1994) — Director
30. Lancaster Style (1996) — Director
31. Malinalco (2001) — Director
32. Tzolkin (2002) — Director
33. Time Management (1982) — Director
34. Martha I Love You (2008) — Director

Also appeared in

1. El Cambio (1971) — El de la rotativa
2. Barrel maker (1969)