Pavel Ponomaryov
Pavel Ponomaryov( born 30 January 1980 in Leningrad) is a Russian actor and musician residing in Estonia.
Ponomaryov is perhaps best known for playing Andrei in the Swedish film" Lilya 4- ever" by Lukas Moodysson.
Artyom Bogucharsky
Artyom Gennadyevich
Bogucharsky( Russian: Артем Генна́дьевич Богучарский; born 14 August 1989) is a Russian stage, film and television actor who is perhaps best recalled internationally for his role in the 2002 drama," Lilya 4- ever".
Oksana Akinshina
Oksana Sergeevna Akinshina( born 19 April 1987) is a Russian actress.
She is best known for her roles in films" Sisters"( 2001)," Lilya 4- ever"( 2002)," The Bourne Supremacy"( 2004), and" Hipsters"( 2008).
Duet for Four
Duet for Four is a 1982 film directed by Tim Burstall.
John A. Russo
John A. Russo( born February 2, 1939), sometimes credited as Jack Russo or John Russo, is an American screenwriter and film director most commonly associated with the 1968 horror classic film" Night of the Living Dead".
As a screenwriter, his credits include" Night of the Living Dead The Majorettes Midnight", and" Santa Claws".
The latter two, he also directed.
He has performed small roles as an actor, most notably the first ghoul who is stabbed in the head in" Night of the Living Dead", as well as cameos in" There's Always Vanilla" and" House of Frankenstein 1997".
I Want Your Love (film)
I Want Your
Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film.
Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews.
The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons.
The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes.
The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword.
This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively.
Gunan, King of the Barbarians
Gunan, King of the Barbarians  is a 1982 film directed by Franco Prosperi.
Midnight (1982 film)
Midnight( also released as Backwoods Massacre) is a 1982 American exploitation horror film directed by John A. Russo and starring Melanie Verlin, Lawrence Tierney, and John Amplas.
It is based on Russo's 1980 novel of the same name, published by Pocket Books.
It follows a female hitchhiker en route to San Francisco who finds herself at the mercy of a backwoods Satanic cult in Pennsylvania who sacrifice young women in an insane attempt to try and resurrect the rotting corpse of their dead mother.
The film was shot on location outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and features special effects by Tom Savini.
While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic
Lilya 4-ever
Lilja 4- ever is a 2002 Swedish- Danish drama film, which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 23 August 2002, directed by Lukas Moodysson.
" Lilja 4- ever" is a story of the downward spiral of Lilja Michailova, played by Oksana Akinshina, a girl in the former Soviet Union whose mother abandons her to move to the United States.
The story is loosely based on the true case of Danguolė Rasalaitė, and examines the issue of human trafficking and sexual slavery.
The film received positive reviews both in Sweden and abroad.
It won five Guldbagge Awards including Best Film, as well as was nominated for Best Film and Best Actress at the European Film Awards.
The movie was lauded by critics, and has since been deemed one of the bleakest and most depressing movies ever made.
Lukas Moodysson
Karl Fredrik Lukas Moodysson( born 17 January 1969) is a Swedish novelist, short story writer and film director.
First coming to prominence as an ambitious poet in the 1980s, he had his big domestic and international breakthrough directing the 1998 romantic film" Show Me Love".
He has since directed a string of films with different styles and public appeal, as well as continued to write both poetry and novels.
In 2007," The Guardian" ranked Moodysson eleventh in its list of the world ’s best directors, describing his directorial style as “ heartfelt and uncompromising. ”

Question: Are the directors of both films Lilya 4-ever and Midnight (1982 film) from the same country?
Answer: no