Mind Games (1989 film)
Mind Games is a 1989 American thriller film directed by Bob Yari and written by Kenneth Dorward.
The film stars Maxwell Caulfield, Edward Albert, Shawn Weatherly and Matt Norero.
The film was released on March 3, 1989, by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer.
Leo Mittler
Leo Mittler( 1893 – 1958) was an Austrian playwright, screenwriter and film director.
Mittler was born in Vienna, then the capital of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, to a Jewish family.
He attended the University of Music and Performing Arts and worked as a playwright and director in the German theatre.
Mittler then switched to work in the booming German film industry during the silent era.
Mittler's best known film as director was" Beyond the Street"( 1929), a" street film" influenced by Soviet cinema.
As well as his work in the German industry, Mittler also spent time at the American company Paramount's French language- subsidiary based at the Joinville Studios in Paris.
Following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, Mittler spent many years in exile in several countries including Britain and France before settling in the United States during the Second World War.
Mittler's career as a director had all but ended in the mid-1930s, after making the Stanley Lupino musical comedy" Cheer Up"( 1936), but he worked occasionally as a screenwriter.
Mittler wrote the original story of the MGM pro-Soviet film" Song of Russia"( 1944) which was later investigated by HUAC for its alleged communist sympathies.
Mittler returned to Germany post-war, and died there in 1958.
Before his death, he worked for German theatre and television.
The Last Waltz (1936 British film)
The Last Waltz is a 1936 British musical film directed by Leo Mittler, and starring Jarmila Novotna, Harry Welchman, and Gerald Barry.
Barry also provided some assistance with the direction.
It was made at the Billancourt Studios in Paris as the English- language version of the French film" La dernière valse".
It was part of a trend of operetta films during the middle of the decade, and was based on the 1920 operetta" The Last Waltz" by Oscar Strauss.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Gys and Emil Hasler.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Bob Yari
Bob Yari( born May 30, 1961) is an Iranian- born American film producer.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.

Question: Are both director of film Mind Games (1989 Film) and director of film The Last Waltz (1936 British Film) from the same country?
Answer: no