Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés (22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish-born Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico and Spain.
When Buñuel died at age 83, his obituary in "The New York Times" called him "an iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later".
His first picture, "Un Chien Andalou"—made in the silent era—was called "the most famous short film ever made" by critic Roger Ebert, and his last film, "That Obscure Object of Desire"—made 48 years later—won him Best Director awards from the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics.
Writer Octavio Paz called Buñuel's work "the marriage of the film image to the poetic image, creating a new reality...scandalous and subversive".
Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel created films from the 1920s through the 1970s.
His work spans two continents, three languages, and an array of genres, including experimental film, documentary, melodrama, satire, musical, erotica, comedy, romance, costume dramas, fantasy, crime film, adventure, and western.
Despite this variety, filmmaker John Huston believed that, regardless of genre, a Buñuel film is so distinctive as to be instantly recognizable, or, as Ingmar Bergman put it, "Buñuel nearly always made Buñuel films".
Seven of Buñuel's films are included in "Sight & Sound"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s 2012 critics' poll of the top 250 films of all time.
Fifteen of his films are included in the "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?"
list of the 1,000 greatest films of all time, for which he ranks second only to Jean-Luc Godard, with sixteen, and he ranks number 13 on their list of the top 250 directors.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
A Play for a Passenger
A Play for a Passenger (translit.
Pyesa dlya passazhira) is a 1995 Russian drama film directed by Vadim Abdrashitov.
It was entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear.
A Woman Without Love
Una mujer sin amor (English:
A Woman Without Love) is a 1952 Mexican film directed by Spanish-born filmmaker Luis Buñuel.
It is based on Guy de Maupassant's story "Pierre et Jean."
The film, like much of Buñuel's work, criticizes bourgeois values, especially those of the highly superficial Don Carlos Montero.
Buñuel himself considered it his worst film.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and 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.
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.

Question: Are both director of film A Play For A Passenger and director of film A Woman Without Love from the same country?
Answer: no