Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Never Talk to Strangers
Never Talk to Strangers is a 1995 American thriller film directed by Peter Hall and starring Antonio Banderas and Rebecca De Mornay.
Peter Hall (director)
Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall, CBE( 22 November 1930 11 September 2017), was an English theatre, opera and film director.
His obituary in" The Times" declared him" the most important figure in British theatre for half a century" and on his death, a Royal National Theatre statement declared that Hall's" influence on the artistic life of Britain in the 20th century was unparalleled".
In 1955, Hall introduced London audiences to the work of Samuel Beckett with the UK premiere of" Waiting for Godot".
Hall founded the Royal Shakespeare Company( 1960 – 68) and went on to build an international reputation in theatre, opera, film and television.
He was director of the National Theatre( 1973 – 88) and artistic director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera( 19841990).
He formed the Peter Hall Company( 19982011) and became founding director of the Rose Theatre Kingston in 2003.
Throughout his career, he was a tenacious champion of public funding for the arts.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
The Puppetmaster (film)
The Puppetmaster is a 1993 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien.
Based on the memoirs of Li Tian -lu, Taiwan ’s most celebrated puppeteer, this story covers the years from Li ’s birth in 1909 to the end of Japan ’s fifty- year occupation of Taiwan in 1945.
Many consider" The Puppetmaster" a masterpiece of world cinema.
In the British Film Institute's 2012" Sight& Sound" poll, seven critics and three directors named it one of the greatest films ever made.
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Hou Hsiao-hsien (born 8 April 1947) is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement, an auteur.
He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film "A City of Sadness" (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for "The Assassin" (2015).
Other highly regarded works of his include "The Puppetmaster" (1993) and "Flowers of Shanghai" (1998).
Hou was voted "Director of the Decade" for the 1990s in a poll of American and international critics put together by "The Village Voice" and "Film Comment".
In a 1998 New York Film Festival worldwide critics' poll, Hou was named "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of cinema.
A City of Sadness" ranked 117th in the British Film Institute's 2012 "Sight & Sound" critics' poll of the greatest films ever made.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.

Question: Are director of film The Puppetmaster (film) and director of film Never Talk to Strangers from the same country?
Answer: no