Samson Against the Sheik
Samson Against the Sheik( also known as" Maciste Against the Sheik") is a 1962 Italian peplum film directed by Domenico Paolella.
Kerim, Son of the Sheik
Kerim, Son of the Sheik( also known just as Son of the Sheik) is a 1962 Italian- French adventure film directed by Mario Costa and starring Gordon Scott.
Samson and the Sea Beast
Samson and the Sea Beast( also known as" Samson Against the Pirates") is a 1963 Italian peplum film directed by Tanio Boccia.
Hassan Yektapanah
Hassan Yektapanah( born 1963, in Tehran) is an Iranian( Persian) filmmaker and screenwriter.
He started his career as an assistant director, first with Jafar Panahi on" The Mirror"( 1997) and then on Abbas Kiarostami's film" The Taste of Cherry"( 1997).
The first film he directed was" Djomeh", winning the Caméra d' Or for the best first- time entry at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
Domenico Paolella
Domenico Paolella( 18 October 1915- 7 October 2002) was an Italian director, screenwriter and journalist.
Born in Foggia, between 1933 and 1935 Paolella won several contests for amateur directors; in the same years he started working as a journalist for several newspapers and magazines.
In 1937 he entered the film industry as assistant of Carmine Gallone for" Scipio the African", and the following year made his debut as a director of short films.
During the war he was correspondent from the Soviet front.
From 1946 to 1951 he was artistic director and chief editor of the INCOM newsreel production company.
In 1939 Paolella directed his first feature film," The Last of the Road".
In subsequent years, he first directed a series of musical films of great success produced by Carlo Infascelli, then he specialized in the comic genre.
Paolella directed his last film in 1979, and briefly rejoined the industry in the early nineties when he collaborated on several screenplays for films directed by Sergio Sollima, Stelvio Massi, Lamberto Bava and Aldo Lado.
E. M. Hull
Edith Maud Hull( 16 August 1880 – 11 February 1947) was a British writer of romance novels, typically under the pen name E. M. Hull.
She is best known for" The Sheik", which became an international best seller in 1921.
" The Sheik" is credited with setting off a major and hugely popular revival of the" desert romance" genre of romantic fiction.
Hull followed" The Sheik" with several other novels with desert settings, such as" The Shadow of the East The Desert Healer", and" The Sons of the Sheik".
The Sheik (film)
The Sheik is a 1921 American silent romantic drama film produced by Famous Players- Lasky, directed by George Melford, starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres, and featuring Adolphe Menjou.
It was based on the bestselling romance novel of the same name by Edith Maude Hull and was adapted for the screen by Monte M. Katterjohn.
The film was a box- office hit and helped propel Valentino to stardom.
In the 1926 sequel" The Son of the Sheik", Valentino played both the Sheik and his son, while Ayres reprised her role.
A third film in the series," She's a Sheik", was produced in 1927 by Paramount and starred Bebe Daniels in a comedic role reversal of the original film.
The Son of the Sheik
The Son of the Sheik is a 1926 American silent adventure/ drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky.
The film is based on the 1925 romance novel of the same name by Edith Maude Hull, and is a sequel to the 1921 hit film" The Sheik", which also stars Rudolph Valentino.
" The Son of the Sheik" is Valentino's final film and went into general release nearly two weeks after his death from peritonitis at the age of 31.
In 2003, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Toto the Sheik
Toto the Sheik is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò.
It is a parody of desert films such as" The Son of the Sheik" and" Siren of Atlantis".
Djomeh
Djomeh is a 2000 Iranian drama film directed by Hassan Yektapanah.
It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d' Or.

Question: Are the directors of films Djomeh and Samson Against The Sheik both from the same country?
Answer: no