The Mark of Zorro (1940 film)
The Mark of Zorro is a 1940 American black- and- white swashbuckling Spanish Western adventure film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, that stars Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, and Basil Rathbone.
" The Mark of Zorro" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score.
The film was named to the National Film Registry in 2009 by the Library of Congress for being" culturally, historically or aesthetically significant", and to be preserved for all time.
The film is based on" The Curse of Capistrano" written by Johnston McCulley, originally published in 1919 in five serialized installments in" All- Story Weekly", which introduced the masked hero Zorro; the story is set in Southern California during the early 19th century.
After the enormous success of the silent 1920 film adaptation," The Mark of Zorro", the story was republished under that name by Grosset& Dunlap.
The Mark of Cain (1916 film)
The Mark of Cain is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and starring Lon Chaney.
La marca de Satanás
La Marca de Satanás(" The Mark of Satan") is a 1957 Mexican film.
It was directed by Chano Urueta.
Sylvain White
Sylvain White( born 12 February 1975) is a French film director.
The Mark of Zorro
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The Mark of Cain (2000 film)
The Mark of Cain is a 2000 documentary film on Russian criminal tattoos directed by Alix Lambert.
33rd Sarasaviya Awards
The 33rd Sarasaviya Awards festival (Sinhala: 33වැනි සරසවිය සම්මාන උලෙළ), presented by the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited, was held to honor the best films of 2015 Sinhala cinema on December 15, 2016, at the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa Theatre, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka at 6:00 p.m.
The ceremony was hosted by Kamal Addararachchi and Sangeetha Weeraratne.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe was the chief guest at the awards nights.
"Maharaja Gemunu" won the most awards with eleven including Best Film.
Other winners included "Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka" and "Ho Gaana Pokuna" with three awards.
Prasanna Vithanage
Prasanna Vithanage( born 14 March 1962) is a Sri Lankan filmmaker.
His films have won many awards, both local and international, and have also been commercially successful.
In his early theatre work, he translated and produced plays by international writers, adapted works of world literature to film.
His 7th feature film," Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka"( With You, Without You – Tamil title=" Piragu")( 2012), had its world premier in the" World Greats" section at the 39th Montreal International Film Festival.
Written by Prasanna," Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka"( With You, Without You) is adapted from a novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky(" A Gentle Creature," a.k.a.
The Meek One) and set in post-war Sri Lanka.
On the international festival run, by late 2013" Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka"( With You, Without You) had won 5 international awards, including" best picture" in France and Italy.
It earned a nomination for best picture at the 2013 Asia Pacific Screen Awards in Australia.
" Aagaya Pookkal," the Tamil- dubbed version of his 6th feature film," Akasa Kusum," was screened in Jaffna on 1 April 2011.
It was the only movie premier of a Sinhala film director to have been held in Jaffna during the past 30 years.
On 30 March 2013, Vithanage founded the' Prasanna Vithanage Academy of Acting' in Sri Lanka, for aspiring acting students.
In 2015 Prasanna wrote and directed his first Documentary feature, a docudrama named" Usawiya Nihandai"( English Title-" Silence in the Courts") based on actual events that took place in rural Sri Lanka a decade ago.
It premiered in Sakhalin International Film Festival in Russia in fall 2015 and was due for a nationwide theatrical release in Sri Lanka on 6 October 2016.
Colombo District Court issued an injunction, temporarily halting its theatrical release, after the protagonist of the story( a former district judge) the film was based upon, has filed a petition against the film's public release, citing its slandering nature towards his character.
On 21 October 2016, the same Colombo District Court overturned its decision and lifted the injunction, allowing a nationwide theatrical release for" Silence in the Courts", enabling film's successful theatrical run in Sri Lanka.
Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka
Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka is a 2012 Sri Lankan film written and directed by prolific Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage, and produced by Lasantha Navaratne, Mohammad Adamaly and Prasanna Vithanage for Akar Films.
It stars Shyam Fernando and Anjali Patil in lead roles with Maheshwari Ratnam and Wasantha Moragoda.
Music composed by Lakshman Joseph De Saram.
Based on the short story" A Gentle Creature" by Fyodor Dostoyevski," Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka" was adapted into a post-war Sri Lankan background.
Principal photography was shot in Bogawanthalawa, Central Province, Sri Lanka and Sarasavi Studio in Colombo.
The Mark of the Angels – Miserere
The Mark of the Angels – Miserere is a 2013 French thriller film directed by Sylvain White and based on Jean- Christophe Grangé's 2008 novel'.
Headlined by Gérard Depardieu and JoeyStarr, the film is the fifth adaptation of a Grangé novel after" The Crimson RiversEmpire of the Wolves",' and" Flight of the Storks" and the first for which Grangé himself did not collaborate on the screenplay.
Instead, the novel was adapted by" La Proie" and" La chance de ma vie" co-writers Laurent Turner and in collaboration with director White and Yann Mège(" Paris enquêtes criminelles").
The film, which benefitted from a large budget, deals with a series of mysteriours murders, Nazism, private military companies and child abuse.
It was poorly received by critics and failed to make an impact at the box office.

Question: Are the directors of both films The Mark Of The Angels – Miserere and Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka from the same country?
Answer: no