Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
John Badham
John MacDonald Badham( born August 25, 1939) is an English- born American director of film and television, best known for the films" Saturday Night Fever"( 1977)," Dracula"( 1979)," Blue Thunder"( 1983)," War Games"( 1983)," Short Circuit"( 1986), and" Stakeout"( 1987).
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.
Leo Mittler
Leo Mittler( 1893 – 1958) was an Austrian playwright, screenwriter and film director.
Mittler was born in Vienna, then the capital of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, to a Jewish family.
He attended the University of Music and Performing Arts and worked as a playwright and director in the German theatre.
Mittler then switched to work in the booming German film industry during the silent era.
Mittler's best known film as director was" Beyond the Street"( 1929), a" street film" influenced by Soviet cinema.
As well as his work in the German industry, Mittler also spent time at the American company Paramount's French language- subsidiary based at the Joinville Studios in Paris.
Following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, Mittler spent many years in exile in several countries including Britain and France before settling in the United States during the Second World War.
Mittler's career as a director had all but ended in the mid-1930s, after making the Stanley Lupino musical comedy" Cheer Up"( 1936), but he worked occasionally as a screenwriter.
Mittler wrote the original story of the MGM pro-Soviet film" Song of Russia"( 1944) which was later investigated by HUAC for its alleged communist sympathies.
Mittler returned to Germany post-war, and died there in 1958.
Before his death, he worked for German theatre and television.
Tropical Nights (1931 film)
Tropical Nights( German: Tropennächte) is a 1931 American German language drama film directed by Leo Mittler and starring Dita Parlo, Robert Thoeren and Fritz Greiner.
The film was one of five multi-language versions of the American film" Dangerous Paradise"( 1930) made by Paramount at the Joinville Studios in Paris.
These were made in the years following the introduction of sound film, before the practice of dubbing became widespread.
The film, like the original American production, is based on Joseph Conrad's 1915 novel" Victory".
The Hard Way (1991 film)
The Hard Way is a 1991 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by John Badham, and starring Michael J. Fox and James Woods.
Stephen Lang, Annabella Sciorra, Luis Guzmán, LL Cool J, Delroy Lindo, Christina Ricci, Mos Def, Kathy Najimy, Michael Badalucco, Lewis Black, and Penny Marshall appear in supporting roles.

Question: Are director of film Tropical Nights (1931 film) and director of film The Hard Way (1991 film) both from the same country?
Answer: no