Sergio Olhovich

Directing

Sergio Olhovich

Born 1941-10-09 · 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.

Acting 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

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

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

The Sowing of Others poster
9.0

Short film. Unknown plot.

The Sowing of Others

1981

The Sowing of Others poster
9.0

Short film. Unknown plot.

The Sowing of Others

1981

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

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

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

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

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

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