The Tango of Our Childhood
The Tango of Our Childhood is a 1985 Soviet- Armenian tragicomedy film written and directed by Albert Mkrtchyan and starring Mher Mkrtchyan( his brother) and Galya Novents.
Novents' performance as a mother who struggles to raise her children during post -World War II Armenia was awarded Special Mention at the Venice Film Festival.
Mkrtchyan dedicated the autobiographical story to his hometown of Gyumri.
The filming locations highlighted the historic buildings of Gyumri which were marked for preservation as the Kumayri Reserve in 1980.
The film is set in Leninakan( now Gyumri) in the aftermath of World War II.
Novents portrays a wife whose husband has left her and their three children for his wife's best friend.
" The New York Times" described Novents's performance as that of" a kind of Anna Magnani earth mother who acts at the top of her lungs."
Albert Mkrtchyan
Albert Mkrtchyan( February 27, 1937, Leninakan – February 28, 2018, Yerevan); Armenian film director, screenwriter, actor.
People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia( 2003).
He was the younger brother of Soviet actor Frunzik Mkrtchyan.
Edward Dmytryk
Edward Dmytryk( September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian- born American film director.
He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for" Crossfire"( 1947).
In 1947, he was named as one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who refused to testify to the House Un- American Activities Committee( HUAC) in their investigations during the McCarthy- era' Red scare'.
They all served time in prison for contempt of Congress.
In 1951, however, Dmytryk did testify to HUAC and rehabilitated his career.
First hired again by independent producer Stanley Kramer in 1952, Dmytryk is likely best known for directing" The Caine Mutiny"( 1954), a critical and commercial success.
The second- highest grossing film of the year, it was nominated for Best Picture and several other awards at the 1955 Oscars.
Dmytryk was nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures.
Yojimbo
Based on the success of" Yojimbo", Kurosawa's next film," Sanjuro"( 1962), was altered to incorporate the lead character of this film.
In both films, the character wears a rather dilapidated dark kimono bearing the same family" mon".
El tango del viudo
The Tango of the Widower is a Chilean film directed by Raúl Ruiz in 1967 and completed by his widow Valeria Sarmiento for a 2020 release.
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
The Devil Commands
The Devil Commands is a 1941 American horror film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Boris Karloff.
The working title of the film was" The Devil Said No".
In it, a man obsessed with contacting his dead wife falls in with a sinister phony medium.
The Devil Commands is one of the many films from the 1930s and 1940s in which Karloff was cast as a mad scientist with a good heart.
It was one of the last in line of the low- budget horror films that were produced before Universal Studios'" The Wolf Man".
The story was adapted from the novel" The Edge of Running Water" by William Sloane.
Padraig Reynolds
Padraig Reynolds is a writer and director, known for his horror films" The Devil's Dolls" and" Rites of Spring".
El día que me quieras (1935 film)
El día que me quieras( in English: The day that you will love me) is a 1935 musical film which starred the legendary tango singer Carlos Gardel, Spanish actress Rosita Moreno and the tango singer Tito Lusiardo.
The film was directed by John Reinhardt, produced by Robert R. Snody and written by the tango lyricist Alfredo Le Pera.
Il tango della gelosia
Il tango della gelosia(" Tango of Jealousy") is a 1981 Italian comedy film directed by Steno.

Question: Do both films The Tango of Our Childhood and The Devil Commands have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no