The Optimists (film)
The Optimists is a 2006 Serbian black comedy film directed by Goran Paskaljević.
The film, presented as five unrelated narrative sequences, was inspired by Voltaire's satire," Candide The Optimists" features an ensamble cast of Serbian actors with Lazar Ristovski appearing in all five storylines.
The film premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival( TIFF) and was subsequently screened at several other film festivals, earning multiple awards.
The 51st Valladolid International Film Festival named Ristovski Best Actor, and the film won the Youth Jury Award and the Golden Spike award as the best film of the festival.
" The Optimists" was included as part of a retrospective exhibition on director Paskaljević at the Museum of Modern Art in 2008.
Travelling North
Travelling North is a 1987 film directed by Carl Schultz and starring Leo McKern, Julia Blake, and Graham Kennedy.
Based on an original 1979 play of the same name by David Williamson, it is one of Williamson's favourite movies based on his works.
Patricia Brake
Patricia Ann Brake (born 25 June 1942 in Bath, Somerset) is an English actress.
Patricia Brake played Ingrid Fletcher, the daughter of Norman Stanley Fletcher, in the BBC sitcom "Porridge", and its sequel "Going Straight".
Most recently, in 2015, she guest-starred in the BBC ongoing drama "Casualty" and in "Midsomer Murders" for ITV.
Alongside her extensive body of work in West End theatres, she has also appeared in UK soaps "EastEnders" and "Coronation Street".
but has played opposite many British comic actors in numerous situation comedies and one-off plays.
After leaving The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Brake's first acting roles were with the Royal Shakespeare Company where she played alongside such colleagues as Judi Dench, Diana Rigg, Ian Richardson and Ian Holm.
She appeared in series such as "A Sharp Intake of Breath" with David Jason, "Emergency – Ward 10" and "Lorna Doone", as well as film roles in "My Lover, My Son" (1970) and "The Optimists of Nine Elms" (1973).
Anthony Simmons (writer)
Anthony Simmons( 16 December 1922 – 22 January 2016) was a British writer and film director.
He was associated with, though separate from, the Free Cinema movement; he said he was greatly influenced by Humphrey Jennings and by Michelangelo Antonioni ’s movie" Il Grido"( 1957).
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Joseph Hamilton Beattie
Joseph Hamilton Beattie( 1808- 1871) was a locomotive engineer with the London and South Western Railway.
Joseph Beattie was born in Ireland on 12 May 1808.
He was educated in Belfast and initially apprenticed to his father, a Derry architect.
He moved to England in 1835 to serve as an assistant to Joseph Locke on the Grand Junction Railway and from 1837 on the London and Southampton Railway.
After the line opened he became the carriage and wagon superintendent at Nine Elms and succeeded John Viret Gooch as locomotive engineer on 1 July 1850.
Bruce Purchase
Bruce Purchase
( 2 October 1938 – 5 June 2008) was a New Zealand- born actor known for his roles on stage and television.
Born in Thames, New Zealand, he won a scholarship to study acting in England, training at RADA, and went on to become a founding actor-member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre.
He also performed regularly with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
His TV credits included" Callan The First ChurchillsA Picture of Katherine MansfieldDoomwatch Fall of Eagles I, Claudius The New AvengersDoctor Who"( in the serial" The Pirate PlanetBlake's 7 Quatermass" and" The Tripods".
His films included" Macbeth"( 1971)," Mary, Queen of Scots"( 1971)," The Optimists of Nine Elms"( 1973)," Soft Beds, Hard Battles"( 1974)," Meetings with Remarkable Men"( 1979)," Pope John Paul II"( 1984),( 1985)," Playing Away"( 1987)," Lionheart"( 1987) and" Another Life"( 2001).
In 2007, Purchase became seriously ill while touring with a production of" The Last Confession".
He died of cancer on 5 June 2008 at his home in Putney, London.
I Want Your Love (film)
I Want Your
Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film.
Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews.
The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons.
The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes.
The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword.
This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively.
Carl Schultz
Carl Schultz( born 19 September 1939) is a Hungarian- Australian film director.
He left his native Budapest during the uprising of 1956 with his brother Otto Schultz.
They fled to England, and after arriving in London they moved to Manchester.
In 1958, Schultz emigrated to Australia by himself, where he worked for Australian TV, first as a cameraman, and then as a director.
In 1978, he directed his first feature film," Blue Fin", starring Hardy Kruger.
His more notable film credits include" Careful, He Might Hear You", winner of eight Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Director and Best Film;" Travelling North", with Leo McKern; and" The Seventh Sign", starring Demi Moore and Jürgen Prochnow.
The Optimists of Nine Elms
The Optimists of Nine Elms, also known as The Optimists, is a 1973 British drama film starring Peter Sellers and directed by Anthony Simmons, who also wrote the 1964 novel upon which the film is based.
The film is about an old street musician( played by Sellers) who strikes up a friendship with two children- Liz, played by Donna Mullane, and her younger brother Mark, played by John Chaffey.
Neither of the child actors was featured in future films.
A young Keith Chegwin also played a small role.
Mullane was recruited for her role by the film crew when they were scouting locations and saw her as she was walking home from school

Question: Are the directors of both films The Optimists Of Nine Elms and Travelling North from the same country?
Answer: no