Viva Zapata!
Viva Zapata! is a 1952 biographical film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando.
The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using Edgcomb Pinchon's book" Zapata the Unconquerable" as a guide.
The cast includes Jean Peters and, in an Academy Award- winning performance, Anthony Quinn.
The film is a fictionalized account of the life of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata from his peasant upbringing, through his rise to power in the early 1900s, to his death.
To make the film as authentic as possible, Kazan and producer Darryl F. Zanuck studied the numerous photographs that were taken during the revolutionary years, the period between 1909 and 1919 when Zapata led the fight to restore land taken from common people during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.
Kazan was especially impressed with the Agustín Casasola collection of photographs and he attempted to duplicate their visual style in the film.
Kazan also acknowledged the influence of Roberto Rossellini's" Paisan".
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
John Frankenheimer
John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films.
Among his credits were "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962), "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), "Seven Days in May" (1964), "The Train" (1965), "Seconds" (1966), "Grand Prix" (1966), "French Connection II" (1975), "Black Sunday" (1977), and "Ronin" (1998).
He won four Emmy Awards—three consecutive—in the 1990s for directing the television movies "Against the WallThe Burning SeasonAndersonville", and "George Wallace", the last of which also received a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film.
Frankenheimer's 30 feature films and over 50 plays for television were notable for their influence on contemporary thought.
He became a pioneer of the "modern-day political thriller", having begun his career at the peak of the Cold War.
He was technically highly accomplished from his days in live television; many of his films were noted for creating "psychological dilemmas" for his male protagonists along with having a strong "sense of environment," similar in style to films by director Sidney Lumet, for whom he had earlier worked as assistant director.
He developed a "tremendous propensity for exploring political situations" which would ensnare his characters.
Movie critic Leonard Maltin writes that "in his time [1960s]... Frankenheimer worked with the top writers, producers and actors in a series of films that dealt with issues that were just on top of the moment—things that were facing us all."
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan( born Elias Kazantzoglou; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek- American director, producer, writer and actor, described by" The New York Times" as" one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".
He was born in Constantinople( now Istanbul, Turkey), to Cappadocian Greek parents.
After attending Williams College and then the Yale School of Drama, he acted professionally for eight years, later joining the Group Theatre in 1932, and co-founded the Actors Studio in 1947.
With Robert Lewis and Cheryl Crawford, his actors' studio introduced" Method Acting" under the direction of Lee Strasberg.
Kazan acted in a few films, including" City for Conquest"( 1940).
Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins.
He directed a string of successful films, including" A Streetcar Named Desire"( 1951)," On the Waterfront"( 1954), and" East of Eden"( 1955).
During his career, he won two Oscars as Best Director, three Tony Awards, and four Golden Globes.
He also received an Honorary Oscar.
His films were concerned with personal or social issues of special concern to him.
Kazan writes," I do n't move unless I have some empathy with the basic theme."
His first such" issue" film was" Gentleman's Agreement"( 1947), with Gregory Peck, which dealt with anti-Semitism in America.
It received 8 Oscar nominations and 3 wins, including Kazan's first for Best Director.
It was followed by" Pinky", one of the first films in mainstream Hollywood to address racial prejudice against African Americans.
In 1954, he directed" On the Waterfront", a film about union corruption on the New York harbor waterfront.
" A Streetcar Named Desire"( 1951), an adaptation of the stage play which he had also directed, received 12 Oscar nominations, winning 4, and was Marlon Brando's breakthrough role.
In 1955, he directed John Steinbeck's" East of Eden", which introduced James Dean to movie audiences.
A turning point in Kazan's career came with his testimony as a witness before the House Committee on Un- American Activities in 1952 at the time of the Hollywood blacklist, which brought him strong negative reactions from many liberal friends and colleagues.
His testimony helped end the careers of former acting colleagues Morris Carnovsky and Art Smith, along with the work of playwright Clifford Odets.
The two men had made a pact to name each other in front of the committee.
Kazan later justified his act by saying he took" only the more tolerable of two alternatives that were either way painful and wrong."
Nearly a half- century later, his anti-Communist testimony continued to cause controversy.
When Kazan was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1999, dozens of actors chose not to applaud as 250 demonstrators picketed the event.
Kazan influenced the films of the 1950s and 1960s with his provocative, issue- driven subjects.
Director Stanley Kubrick called him," without question, the best director we have in America,[ and] capable of performing miracles with the actors he uses."
Film author Ian Freer concludes that even" if his achievements are tainted by political controversy, the debt Hollywood —and actors everywhere—owes him is enormous."
In 2010, Martin Scorsese co- directed the documentary film" A Letter to Elia" as a personal tribute to Kazan.
The Nickel Ride
The Nickel Ride is a 1974 American neo- noir crime film directed and produced by Robert Mulligan and starring Jason Miller, Linda Haynes, Victor French, Bo Hopkins, and John Hillerman.
It is the debut film of screenwriter Eric Roth.
It was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Palme d' Or. On December 13, 2011 Shout!
Factory released the film on DVD as part of a double feature with" 99 and 44/100% Dead".
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
99 and 44/100% Dead
99 and 44/100%
Dead is a 1974 American action comedy film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Richard Harris.
The title is a play on an advertising slogan for Ivory soap.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.

Question: Are both director of film Viva Zapata! and director of film 99 and 44/100% Dead from the same country?
Answer: yes