Vadim Abdrashitov
Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov  (born 19 January 1945) is one of Russian cinema's most independent directors.
He is internationally renowned, with awards from the Berlin and Venice Film Festivals.
Abdrashitov was born in Ukraine in a Tatar family, and moved all over the Soviet Union with his father's military assignments.
He was so impressed with the space flight of the first Russian cosmonaut that he left his parents and moved to Moscow to study nuclear physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Around that time, he developed an interest in amateur filmmaking, and he transferred to the Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology because it was equipped with a film studio for students.
His cultural and artistic interests developed during the "Thaw," which was a time when repression and censorship were reversed in the Soviet Union.
After graduation as an engineer, he worked as a manager at the Moscow Electric-Vacuum Industry, which was making color TV tubes.
From 1970-1974 Abdrashitov studied film directing at the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography.
His directorial debut was "Ostanovite Potapova!Stop Potapov!" 1974), a satirical comedy based on the screenplay by Grigori Gorin.
In 1975 Abdrashitov met with the unknown writer Aleksandr Mindadze.
That was the beginning of a collaboration that lasted for the next 12 films, which they made together in 30 years.
Their films were awarded at many international film festivals as well as at the Soviet and Russian film forums.
The films of Abdrashitov are often characterized by allowing viewers to see self-exploration occurring in the protagonists.
This will lead them to challenge social norms and traditions.
He delves into uncomfortable, challenging intellectual territory, but manages to avoid the depiction of graphic violence in all his films.
Instead, misery is alluded to in more creative and at times surrealist ways.
In 1987, he won the President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal at the 44th edition of the Venice Film Festival for the film "Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game".
In 1989, he won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival for the film "The Servant".
The following year he was a member of the jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.
At the 45th Berlin International Film Festival in 1995, his film "A Play for a Passenger" won the Silver Bear.
Vadim Abdrashitov has been enjoying a happy family life with his wife, Natella Toidze, and their two children, son Oleg (born in 1973) and daughter Naina (born in 1980).
Abdrashitov is currently residing and working in Moscow.
The Man from Niger
The Man from Niger or Forbidden Love( French: L'homme du Niger) is a 1940 French drama film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli and starring Victor Francen, Jacques Dumesnil and Annie Ducaux.
It is set in the French colonial empire.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Guy de Gastyne and Robert Gys.
It was shot at the Saint- Maurice Studios in Paris and on location in Mali, then known as French Sudan.
The Man from Red Gulch
The Man from Red Gulch is a 1925 American Western film featuring Harry Carey.
Strapless
Strapless is a 1989 film written and directed by David Hare.
The Servant in the House
The Servant in the House is a lost 1921 American silent drama film directed by Jack Conway based on a 1908 Broadway play," The Servant in the House" by Charles Rann Kennedy.
Australia (1989 film)
Australia is a 1989 film directed by Jean- Jacques Andrien.
Jacques de Baroncelli
Jacques de Baroncelli (25 June 1881 – 12 January 1951) was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s.
He came from a Florentine family who had settled in Provence in the 15th century, occupying a building in the centre of Avignon then called the Baroncelli Palace (now the Palais du Roure).
His father's side of the family were of Tuscan origin and part of the Ghibelline tradition, and they were hereditary Marquises of Javon.
Though somewhat aristocratic, the family spoke Provençal, which was rather controversial at a time when it was considered to be a language of the common people.
His brother was Folco de Baroncelli-Javon,
He directed well over 80 films between 1915 and 1948 and in the 1940s released numerous films in the United States and Italy.
One of his films, a version of the Pierre Louÿs novel "La Femme et le pantin" (1928) was filmed in the experimental Keller-Dorian color process.
The Man from Nowhere (1961 film)
The Man from Nowhere is a 1961 Soviet comedy film directed by Eldar Ryazanov.
The Servant (1989 film)
The Servant is a 1989 Soviet drama film directed by Vadim Abdrashitov.
It was entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Alfred Bauer Prize.
Claude Weisz
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.

Question: Which film has the director born earlier, The Servant (1989 Film) or The Man From Niger?
Answer: The Man From Niger