Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Rosa von Praunheim
Rosa von Praunheim( born 25 November 1942) is a German film director, author, painter and the most famous gay rights activist in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
In over 50 years, von Praunheim has made more than 150 films( short and feature- length films).
His works influenced the development of LGBTQ rights movements worldwide.
He began his career associated to the New German Cinema as a senior member of the Berlin school of underground filmmaking.
He took the artistic female name Rosa von Praunheim to remind people of the pink triangle that homosexuals had to wear in Nazi concentration camps.
A pioneer of Queer Cinema, von Praunheim has been an activist in the gay rights movement.
He was an early advocate of AIDS awareness and safer sex, but has been a controversial figure even within the gay community.
His films center on gay related themes and strong female characters.
His works are characterized by excess and employ a campy style.
His films have featured such personalities as Diamanda Galás, Jayne County, Vaginal Davis, Divine, Jeff Stryker and a row of Warhol superstars.
Two Mothers (2007 film)
Film director, Rosa von Praunheim was already in his early sixties when in 2000, Gertrud Mischwitzky, his 93- year- old mother, told him that he had been adopted at an orphanage in Riga.
As his adopted parents were loving and supporting, he initially did not feel the need to search for his origins.
With the death of his mother, Gertrud, he began ferreting out details of the Nazi occupation of Latvia, discovering by chance his biological mother ’s name, Edith Radtke, and his own birth certificate in a prison hospital.
Edith was murdered in a madhouse by Nazi doctors during the war."
My rebellious mother is definitely a part of me, I was lucky enough to put my craziness into my films, the director commented in a later interview.
" Two Mothers" was a hit in German television.
It was very well received, even but usual critics of Praunheim's work.
" They seemed to love this one", the director explained," because they can identify with its narrative.
It is my most emotional film.
I made it without realizing that I was really in the film".
Shima (film)
Shima is a 2007 film from Uzbekistan.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Eugen Burg
Eugen Burg( January 6, 1871 – April 17, 1944) was a German film actor.
His daughter was Hansi Burg.
Burg was a close friend of the actor Hans Albers.
Burg was born Eugen Hirschburg into a Jewish family, but later converted to Protestantism.
He was banished from the film industry when the Nazi Party came to power in Germany.
He later died in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Colonel Chabert (1920 film)
Colonel Chabert is a 1920 German silent historical film directed by and starring Eugen Burg.
It is an adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's 1832 novel" Colonel Chabert".

Question: Are both director of film Two Mothers (2007 Film) and director of film Colonel Chabert (1920 Film) from the same country?