Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Stuart Rosenberg
Stuart Rosenberg( August 11, 1927 – March 15, 2007) was an American film and television director whose motion pictures include" Cool Hand Luke"( 1967)," Voyage of the Damned"( 1976)," The Amityville Horror"( 1979), and" The Pope of Greenwich Village"( 1984).
He was noted for his work with actor Paul Newman.
Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar- winning performance.
Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system.
The film, set in the early 1950s, is based on Donn Pearce's 1965 novel of the same name.
Pearce sold the story to Warner Bros., who then hired him to write the script.
Due to Pearce's lack of film experience, the studio added Frank Pierson to rework the screenplay.
Newman's biographer Marie Edelman Borden states that the" tough, honest" script drew together threads from earlier movies, especially" Hombre", Newman's earlier film of 1967.
The film has been cited by Roger Ebert as an anti-establishment film which was shot during the time of emerging popular opposition to the Vietnam War.
Newman's character, Lucas Jackson, is described( by the notorious" Captain" upon his arrival at the prison), as a" free spirit," whose personal record( read out loud because of its unusual details) indicates a man who started well in the U.S. Army—receiving medals for bravery in" the war" —rose to the rank of sergeant, yet was discharged as a" buck" private.
Luke does not question his physical incarceration, and initially has no thought of escape.
But his spirit is not, like that of his fellow inmates, imprisoned.
This free thinking is, from the outset, noticed by the institution, its functionaries( the guards), and especially its leaders.
Their response is a mixture of both fear and loathing.
So they retaliate against Luke through" physical punishment, psychological cruelty, hopelessness and equal parts of sadism and masochism."
His influence on his prison mates and the torture that he endures is compared to that of Jesus, and Christian symbolism is used throughout the film, culminating in a photograph superimposed over crossroads at the end of the film in comparison to the crucifixion.
Filming took place within California's San Joaquin River Delta region; the set, imitating a prison farm in the Deep South, was based on photographs and measurements made by a crew sent to Road Prison in Gainesville, Florida by the filmmakers.
Upon its release," Cool Hand Luke" received favorable reviews and became a box- office success.
The film cemented Newman's status as one of the era's top box- office actors, while the film was described as the" touchstone of an era." Newman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, George Kennedy won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Pearce and Pierson were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the score by Lalo Schifrin was also nominated for the Best Original Score.
In 2005, the United States Library of Congress selected it for the National Film Registry, considering it to be" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
It has a 100% rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
The quotation used by the prison warden( Strother Martin) in the film, which begins with" What we've got here is failure to communicate," was listed at No. 11 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 most memorable movie lines.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Donn Pearce
Donn Pearce( born, September 28, 1928, died in 2017) was an American author and journalist best known for the novel and screenplay" Cool Hand Luke".
Daniele Vicari
Daniele Vicari( born 26 February 1967) is an Italian director, screenwriter and producer.
Lou Antonio
Louis" Lou" Antonio( born January 23, 1934) is an American actor and TV director best known for performing in the films" Cool Hand Luke" and" America America".
He also starred in two short- lived TV series," Dog and Cat", and" Makin' It".
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.
Maximum Velocity (V-Max)
Maximum Velocity( V- Max) is a 2002 Italian drama film directed by Daniele Vicari.
It entered the competition at the 59th Venice International Film Festival.
For this film Vicari won the 2003 David di Donatello for best new director.
The film also won two Nastro d'Argento Awards, for best producer and best editing.

Question: Are director of film Maximum Velocity (V-Max) and director of film Cool Hand Luke both from the same country?
Answer: no