Known For
Directing
Born
Oct 09, 1941
Place of Birth
Sumatra, Dutch East Indies [now Sumatra, Indonesia]
Credits
37 titles
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
Filmography
1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil
Director
Martha I Love You
Director
Tzolkin
Director
Malinalco
Writer
In the Shadow of the Moon
Director
Lancaster Style
Director
Lazaro Cardenas' Presidency
Director
Fray Bartolomé de las Casas
Director
Hoy no circula
Story
Tabasco Carnival Exhibition
Director
How Did I Come to Fall in Love With You?
Director
A Christmas Carol
Director
Hope
Director
Angel River
Director
Leopoldo Mendez
Director
Time Management
Director
Everyone's Hell So Feared
Screenplay
The Sowing of Others
Writer
Parastatal Textile Industry in Mexico
Director
The Coffee Tree Fungus
Writer
Year 2000
Director
Drizzle
Director
The House in the South
Director
Coronation
Writer
El Politécnico Nacional
Director
2nd Congress of Indigenous Peoples
Director
White Villages: Standing and fighting
Director
The Encounter of a Lonely Man
Screenplay
Evasion
Director
Queen Doll
Director
El Cambio
El de la rotativa
Tribute to Leopoldo Mendez
Director
Barrel maker
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Director
Ballad
Director
The Changing of the Guard in Red Square
Director
Moscow River in Winter
Director