Boccaccio (1972 film)
Boccaccio( also known as" The Nights of Boccaccio") is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Bruno Corbucci.
It is loosely based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel" Decameron", and it is part of a series of derivative comedies based on the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's" The Decameron"( 1971).
The Decameron (1971 film)
The Decameron is a 1971 film by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the novel" Il Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio.
It is the first movie of Pasolini's" Trilogy of life", the others being" The Canterbury Tales" and" Arabian Nights".
The tales contain abundant nudity, sex, slapstick and scatological humor.
The film was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize.
Okay Bill
Okay Bill is a 1971 film directed by John G. Avildsen.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual, who also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, novelist, playwright, and political figure.
He remains a controversial personality in Italy due to his blunt style and the focus of some of his works on taboo sexual matters.
He was an established major figure in European literature and cinematic arts.
His murder prompted an outcry in Italy and its circumstances continue to be a matter of heated debate.
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Cotton Comes to Harlem is an neo- noir action comedy film co-written and directed in 1970 by Ossie Davis and starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, and Redd Foxx.
The film is based on Chester Himes' novel of the same name.
The opening theme," Ai n't Now But It's Gonna Be" was written by Ossie Davis and performed by Melba Moore.
It was followed two years later by the sequel" Come Back, Charleston Blue".
Calvin Lockhart
Calvin Lockhart( born Bert McClossy Cooper; October 18, 1934 March 29, 2007) was a Bahamian – American stage and film actor.
Lockhart was perhaps best known for his roles as; Reverend Deke O'Malley in the 1970 film" Cotton Comes to Harlem" and Biggie Smalls in the 1975 Warner Bros.
film" Let's Do It Again".
Gertrude Jeannette
Gertrude Hadley Jeannette (November 28, 1914 – April 4, 2018) was an African American playwright and film and stage actress.
She is also known for being the first woman to work as a licensed taxi driver in New York City, which she began doing in 1942.
Despite being blacklisted during the Red Scare in the 1950s, she wrote five plays and founded the H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players in Harlem, New York, remaining active in mentoring African-American actors in New York City.
In the 1960s and 1970s she appeared in Broadway productions such as "The Long DreamNobody Loves an AlbatrossThe Amen CornerThe Skin of Our Teeth" and "Vieux Carré".
She also appeared in films such as "Cotton Comes to Harlem" in 1969, "Shaft" in 1971, and "Black Girl" in 1972.
She acted into her 80s and retired from directing theater at the age of 98.
Come Back, Charleston Blue
Come Back, Charleston
Blue is a 1972 comedy film starring Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques, loosely based on Chester Himes' novel" The Heat's On".
It is a sequel to the 1970 film" Cotton Comes to Harlem".
Demonstrator (film)
Demonstrator is a 1971 film directed by Warwick Freeman.
Ossie Davis
Ossie Davis( born Raiford Chatman Davis; December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and civil rights activist.
He was married to Ruby Dee, with whom he frequently performed, until his death in 2005.
He and his wife were named to the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame; were awarded the National Medal of Arts and were recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors.
He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994.

Question: Do both directors of films The Decameron (1971 Film) and Cotton Comes To Harlem share the same nationality?
Answer: no