Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Nandini Bhaktavatsala
Nandini Bhaktavatsala( born Prema) is an Indian film actress who works in the Kannada film industry.
She won the National Film Award for Best Actress in 1973 for the Kannada film" Kaadu".
She is married to Bhaktavatsala, a film producer.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Jacques Dupont (director)
Jacques Dupont( 21 April 1921, Ruelle- sur- Touvre – 10 March 2013) was a French film director.
Girish Karnad
Girish Karnad( 19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Rhodes Scholar, who predominantly worked in South Indian cinema and Bollywood.
His rise as a playwright in the 1960s, marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada, just as Badal Sarkar did in Bengali, Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi, and Mohan Rakesh in Hindi.
He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India.
For four decades Karnad composed plays, often using history and mythology to tackle contemporary issues.
He translated his plays into English and received acclaim.
His plays have been translated into some Indian languages and directed by directors like Ebrahim Alkazi, B. V. Karanth, Alyque Padamsee, Prasanna, Arvind Gaur, Satyadev Dubey, Vijaya Mehta, Shyamanand Jalan, Amal Allanaa and Zafer Mohiuddin.
He was active in the world of Indian cinema working as an actor, director and screenwriter, in Hindi and Kannada cinema, and has earned awards.
He was conferred Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan by the Government of India and won four Filmfare Awards, of which three are Filmfare Award for Best Director – Kannada and the fourth a Filmfare Best Screenplay Award.
He was a presenter for a weekly science magazine programme called" Turning Point" that aired on Doordarshan in 1991.
Kaadu (1973 Kannada film)
Kaadu(" Forest") is a 1973 Indian Kannada film written and directed by Girish Karnad.
The screenplay was based on a novel of the same name by Srikrishna Alanahalli.
It stars Master G. S. Nataraj, Amrish Puri and Nandini Bhaktavatsala in the lead roles.
The film won awards at the 21st National Film Awards and the 21st Filmfare Awards South.
Kamal Haasan called it one of his favourite films and said this film served as inspiration for his film" Thevar Magan"( 1992).
Crèvecoeur (film)
Crèvecoeur( also known as" Heartbreak Ridge") is a 1955 French documentary film directed by Jacques Dupont.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
The plot revolves around French troops fighting under the United Nations Command in the Korean War.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.

Question: Are both director of film Kaadu (1973 Kannada Film) and director of film Crèvecoeur (Film) from the same country?
Answer: no