Sergio Olhovich

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1941-10-09 (83 years old)

Place of Birth Sumatra, Dutch East Indies [now Sumatra, Indonesia]

Also Known As Sergio Olhovich Greene

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

Writer

2025
2008
2002
Tzolkin

as Writer

2001
Malinalco

as Writer

1999
1996
Lancaster Style

as Writer

1988
Hope

as Writer

1983
Leopoldo Mendez

as Writer

1982
Time Management

as Writer

1981
1981
1979
Year 2000

as Writer

1978
Drizzle

as Writer

1978
Drizzle

as Screenplay

1976
Coronation

as Writer

1973
Evasion

as Writer

1972
Queen Doll

as Writer

1968
The Drizzle

as Writer

1964
Ballad

as Writer

Director

2008
Martha I Love You

as Director

2002
Tzolkin

as Director

2001
Malinalco

as Director

1996
Lancaster Style

as Director

1989
A Christmas Carol

as Director

1988
Hope

as Director

1988
Angel River

as Director

1983
Leopoldo Mendez

as Director

1982
Time Management

as Director

1981
1980
1979
Year 2000

as Director

1978
Drizzle

as Director

1976
Coronation

as Director

1976
1976
1973
Evasion

as Director

1972
Queen Doll

as Director

1968
The Drizzle

as Director

1964
Ballad

as Director

1962

Editor

1976
Coronation

as Editor

1973
Evasion

as Editor

Actor

1971
El Cambio

as El de la rotativa

Crew

1973
Evasion

as Cinematography

Producer

1968
The Drizzle

as Producer