
Sergio Olhovich
Known for DirectingBorn 1941-10-09 (age 84)Sumatra, Dutch East Indies [now Sumatra, Indonesia]
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.Read more
Movies & web series
Tabasco Carnival Exhibition
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Tabasco Carnival Exhibition
1992 · Movie
Leopoldo Mendez
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Leopoldo Mendez
1983 · Movie
The Sowing of Others
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The Sowing of Others
1981 · Movie
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How Did I Come to Fall in Love With You?
1990 · Movie
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1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil
2025 · Movie
Tribute to Leopoldo Mendez
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Tribute to Leopoldo Mendez
1970 · Movie
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Drizzle
1978 · Movie
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El Cambio
1971 · Movie
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Angel River
1988 · Movie
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Hope
1988 · Movie
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Fray Bartolomé de las Casas
1993 · Movie
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Everyone's Hell So Feared
1981 · Movie
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In the Shadow of the Moon
1999 · Movie
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The House in the South
1976 · Movie
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The Encounter of a Lonely Man
1974 · Movie
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Hoy no circula
1993 · Movie
A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
1989 · Movie
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Queen Doll
1972 · Movie
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Coronation
1976 · Movie

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Martha I Love You
2008 · Movie
Tzolkin
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Tzolkin
2002 · Movie
Malinalco
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Malinalco
2001 · Movie

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Lancaster Style
1996 · Movie
Lazaro Cardenas' Presidency
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Lazaro Cardenas' Presidency
1994 · Movie
Time Management
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Time Management
1982 · Movie
Parastatal Textile Industry in Mexico
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Parastatal Textile Industry in Mexico
1981 · Movie
The Coffee Tree Fungus
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The Coffee Tree Fungus
1980 · Movie
Year 2000
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Year 2000
1979 · Movie
El Politécnico Nacional
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El Politécnico Nacional
1976 · Movie
2nd Congress of Indigenous Peoples
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2nd Congress of Indigenous Peoples
1976 · Movie
White Villages: Standing and fighting
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White Villages: Standing and fighting
1975 · Movie
Evasion
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Evasion
1973 · Movie
Barrel maker
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Barrel maker
1969 · Movie
The Death of Artemio Cruz
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
1965 · Movie
Ballad
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Ballad
1964 · Movie
The Changing of the Guard in Red Square
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The Changing of the Guard in Red Square
1963 · Movie
Moscow River in Winter
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Moscow River in Winter
1962 · Movie