Sergio Olhovich

Directing

Sergio Olhovich

Born

1941-10-09 (85)

Place of birth

Sumatra, Dutch East Indies [now Sumatra, Indonesia]

Known for

Directing

Credits

42 titles

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 Un…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Coronation poster
5.2

The traumatic story of an old bourgueoise in Mexico City, his relationship with his crazy grandmother, his sexually troubled past and his sick crush on the young and beautiful maid of the house.

Coronation

1976

Coronation poster
5.2

The traumatic story of an old bourgueoise in Mexico City, his relationship with his crazy grandmother, his sexually troubled past and his sick crush on the young and beautiful maid of the house.

Coronation

1976

Hope poster
6.3

At only 19 years old, Vladimir Olhosvky, fleeing the Russian Revolution and going into exile in Mexico City, will have to make his way in a new country, totally unknown to him but that will bring him a new life.

Hope

1988

Hope poster
6.3

At only 19 years old, Vladimir Olhosvky, fleeing the Russian Revolution and going into exile in Mexico City, will have to make his way in a new country, totally unknown to him but that will bring him a new life.

Hope

1988

Fray Bartolomé de las Casas poster
6.0

Three moments in the life of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas; his youth encounter with the natives; his resignation in maturity to lands and encomiendas to evangelize and defend justice and dignity against the cruelty of the Spanish and his reflections at the end of his life

Fray Bartolomé de las Casas

1993

Fray Bartolomé de las Casas poster
6.0

Three moments in the life of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas; his youth encounter with the natives; his resignation in maturity to lands and encomiendas to evangelize and defend justice and dignity against the cruelty of the Spanish and his reflections at the end of his life

Fray Bartolomé de las Casas

1993

In the Shadow of the Moon poster
5.8

Ana starts falling in love with an ecologist engineer that comes with her father who is from Russia.

In the Shadow of the Moon

1999

In the Shadow of the Moon poster
5.8

Ana starts falling in love with an ecologist engineer that comes with her father who is from Russia.

In the Shadow of the Moon

1999

Everyone's Hell So Feared poster
6.1

The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.

Everyone's Hell So Feared

1981

Everyone's Hell So Feared poster
6.1

The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.

Everyone's Hell So Feared

1981

1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil poster
8.2

A chronicle of the Mexican oil expropriation in 1938 through the eyes of President Lazaro Cardenas and journalist Alberto Miranda.

1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil

2025

1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil poster
8.2

A chronicle of the Mexican oil expropriation in 1938 through the eyes of President Lazaro Cardenas and journalist Alberto Miranda.

1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil

2025

1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil poster
8.2

A chronicle of the Mexican oil expropriation in 1938 through the eyes of President Lazaro Cardenas and journalist Alberto Miranda.

1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil

2025

A Christmas Carol poster
5.5

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

A Christmas Carol

1989

The Encounter of a Lonely Man poster
6.0

Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl from a fire suffering third-degree burns. When he tells the story to his friends, one of them asks him to write it with realism, so Alberto comes back to his old town to meet Gabriel again.

The Encounter of a Lonely Man

1974

The Encounter of a Lonely Man poster
6.0

Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl from a fire suffering third-degree burns. When he tells the story to his friends, one of them asks him to write it with realism, so Alberto comes back to his old town to meet Gabriel again.

The Encounter of a Lonely Man

1974

How Did I Come to Fall in Love With You? poster
8.8

The history of Los Bukis, from its humble beginning to its successful tour, going through problems and intrigues.

How Did I Come to Fall in Love With You?

1990

How Did I Come to Fall in Love With You? poster
8.8

The history of Los Bukis, from its humble beginning to its successful tour, going through problems and intrigues.

How Did I Come to Fall in Love With You?

1990

Tribute to Leopoldo Mendez poster
7.7

Tribute to Leopoldo Méndez, a prominent Mexican artist, considered the most important printmaker in Contemporary Mexico

Tribute to Leopoldo Mendez

1970

Tribute to Leopoldo Mendez poster
7.7

Tribute to Leopoldo Méndez, a prominent Mexican artist, considered the most important printmaker in Contemporary Mexico

Tribute to Leopoldo Mendez

1970

Drizzle poster
7.5

Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him.

Drizzle

1978

Drizzle poster
7.5

Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him.

Drizzle

1978

Drizzle poster
7.5

Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him.

Drizzle

1978

Angel River poster
6.3

It's love on the old frontier in this western adventure set in Arizona in the 1870s. It centers on a beautiful, young blonde girl whose peaceful life on her parents' isolated ranch is permanently disrupted when she is abducted and raped by a drunken Mexican bandit. Later, she finds herself drawn to her tormentor and romance ensues.

Angel River

1988

Queen Doll poster
5.6

A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.

Queen Doll

1972

Queen Doll poster
5.6

A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.

Queen Doll

1972

The House in the South poster
6.0

Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.

The House in the South

1976

The House in the South poster
6.0

Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.

The House in the South

1976

The Death of Artemio Cruz poster
NR

Short student film based on the Carlos Fuentes' novel, about the last days of an elderly man.

The Death of Artemio Cruz

1965

The Death of Artemio Cruz poster
NR

Short student film based on the Carlos Fuentes' novel, about the last days of an elderly man.

The Death of Artemio Cruz

1965

White Villages: Standing and fighting poster
NR

Short documentary. Plot unknown.

White Villages: Standing and fighting

1975

White Villages: Standing and fighting poster
NR

Short documentary. Plot unknown.

White Villages: Standing and fighting

1975

Year 2000 poster
NR

Short documentary. Plot unknown.

Year 2000

1979

Year 2000 poster
NR

Short documentary. Plot unknown.

Year 2000

1979

Time Management poster
NR

Short film. Plot unknown.

Time Management

1982

Time Management poster
NR

Short film. Plot unknown.

Time Management

1982

Tabasco Carnival Exhibition poster
10.0

Short documentary about the Tabasco Carnival, one of the most important in Mexico

Tabasco Carnival Exhibition

1992

Tabasco Carnival Exhibition poster
10.0

Short documentary about the Tabasco Carnival, one of the most important in Mexico

Tabasco Carnival Exhibition

1992

2nd Congress of Indigenous Peoples poster
NR

Short documentary about the 2nd Congress of Indigenous Peoples

2nd Congress of Indigenous Peoples

1976

2nd Congress of Indigenous Peoples poster
NR

Short documentary about the 2nd Congress of Indigenous Peoples

2nd Congress of Indigenous Peoples

1976