Antonio Serrano
José Antonio Serrano Argüelles( born 17 May 1955 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director, actor, playwright and screenwriter.
He graduated with a degree in Communications from the Universidad Iberoamericana.
He also attended the" Royal Weber Academy of Dramatic Art" in England and the" Odin Teatre" of Denmark.
He studied with the following directors: Polish Jerzy Grotowski, French Philippe Gaulier and Italian Carlos Bosso. Back in Mexico he worked in the telenovela( soap opera) industry for Televisa and TV Azteca, directing actors such as Gael García Bernal, Salma Hayek, Chayanne and Angélica Aragón.
He directed ten plays as well including" Sexo, pudor y lágrimas", which he also wrote.
He made this play into a film in 1999 which became the highest grossing at the time( or 12 million US dollars at the exchange rate of 1999).
The movie was seen exhibited for six months by millions and earned several Ariels awarded by the Mexican Academy of Film.
His following films were" Lucia, Lucia" with" All About My Mother" Argentine actress Cecilia Roth and the segment" El Torzón" of the series of short- films about violence in Mexico City titled" Cero y van cuatro".
Serrano was nominated for the Ariel Award in 2004 for his adaptation of the script of" Lucía, Lucía".
Richard Peduzzi
Richard Peduzzi( born 1943 in Argentan, Orne) is a French scenographer.
He was the director of the French Academy in Rome from September 2002 to August 2008.
Since 1969, he has decorated the sets designed by Patrice Chéreau, and together they have put on several dramatic texts by Bernard- Marie Koltès.
In the theatre, they participated in the centennial productions of" Der Ring des Nibelungen" at Bayreuth under the direction of Pierre Boulez.
For the Opéra National de Paris, they presented Alban Berg's" Lulu", and Jacques Offenbach's" The Tales of Hoffmann", and for the La Scala, Milan, they collaborated on Wagner's" Tristan und Isolde"( 2007).
Peduzzi also created films with Chéreau, such as" La Reine Margot" and" Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train".
He was nominated for a César Award for Best Production Design in 1976 for his work on" La Chair de l'orchidée".
Peduzzi's sets are often formed of large vertical masses symbolising the dangers that threaten the characters.
La Chair de l'orchidée
La Chair de l'orchidée( The Flesh of the Orchid) is a 1975 film, an adaptation of the 1948 novel" The Flesh of the Orchid" by British writer James Hadley Chase," a pulp- novel sequel to" No Orchids for Miss Blandish( 1939).
The story was selected by French author Patrice Chéreau, in his directorial debut and already well known for his stage direction, as the subject for his first film.
The film stars Charlotte Rampling, Simone Signoret, Bruno Cremer and Edwige Feuillère.
Patrice Chéreau
Patrice Chéreau (2 November 1944 – 7 October 2013) was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer.
In France he is best known for his work for the theatre, internationally for his films "La Reine Margot" and "Intimacy", and for his staging of the "Jahrhundertring", the centenary "Ring Cycle" at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976.
Winner of almost twenty movie awards, including the Cannes Jury Prize and the Golden Berlin Bear, Chéreau served as president of the jury at the 2003 Cannes festival.
From 1966, he was artistic director of the "Public-Theatre" in the Parisian suburb of Sartrouville, where in his team were stage designer Richard Peduzzi, costume designer Jacques Schmidt and lighting designer André Diot, with whom he collaborated in many later productions.
From 1982, he was director of "his own stage" at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers at Nanterre where he staged plays by Jean Racine, Marivaux and Shakespeare as well as works by Jean Genet, Heiner Müller and Bernard-Marie Koltès.
He accepted selected opera productions, such as: the first performance of the three-act version of Alban Berg's "Lulu", completed by Friedrich Cerha, at the Paris Opera in 1979; Berg's "Wozzeck" at the Staatsoper Berlin in 1994; Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" at La Scala in 2007; Janáček's "From the House of the Dead", shown at several festivals and the Metropolitan Opera; and, as his last staging, "Elektra" by Richard Strauss, first performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July 2013.
He was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize in 2008.
Aída Bortnik
Aída Bortnik (7 January 1938 – 27 April 2013) was an Argentine screenwriter, nominated for an Academy Award for her work in the film "La historia oficial" (1985).
She has the notable distinction of having written the screenplay for both the first Argentine film nominated for an Academy Award ("The Truce", 1974) and the first Argentine film to win an Academy Award ("La historia oficial").
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Jean-Jacques Pelletier
Jean- Jacques Pelletier( born 1947) is a French Canadian philosophy professor and author.
Pelletier was a long- time philosophy teacher with the Lévis- Lauzon post- secondary school, but is best known in several media as an author of French- language thrillers, some of which have an element of fantasy.
Many of his works have received critical acclaim, as his short story" La Bouche barbelée" won a CBC/ Radio- Canada contest in 1993.
Pelletier has had several other works published as well, and his works" Blunt- Les treize derniers jours" and" La Chair disparue" were published as serials in the popular Montreal magazine" La Presse" in 1997 – 1998.
" La Chair disparue" was chosen for inclusion in the French version of" Canada Reads", broadcast on Radio- Canada in 2005, where it was defended by pianist Alain Lefèvre.
Ángel Sala
Ángel Sala( born 1964) is the director of the Sitges Film Festival.
" A Serbian Film" was banned by a court in San Sebastián, Spain for" threatening sexual freedom" and thus could not be shown in the XXI Semana de Cine Fantástico y de Terror( 21st Horror and Fantasy Film Festival).
The film was shown at an adults- only screening at the Spanish Sitges Film Festival during October 2010.
As a result, the festival's director Ángel Sala was charged with exhibiting child pornography by the Spanish prosecutor who decided to take action in May 2011 after receiving a complaint from a Roman Catholic organization over a pair of scenes involving the rapes of a young child and a newborn.
The charges were later dropped.
Paradoxically, film was awarded in others festivals like the" Fantasporto" in Porto, Portugal.
Film was presented in 40 countries, and only in Spain had this problem.
Several directors of different film festivals( Sevilla, San Sebastián, Valladolid, Málaga, Pamplona, Huelva and Granada, etc.) sent letters to Salas showing their support.
He has written several books about films.
It includes" Tiburón: Vas a necesitar un barco más grande!: el filme que cambió Hollywood"( 2005), about the film" Jaws"( 1975);" Profanando el sueño de los muertos: la historia jamás contada del cine fantástico español"( 2010), about Spanish cinema; and" Just imagine: 50 títulos esenciales del cine de ciencia ficción"( 2017), about science fiction films.
La historia del tango
La historia del tango is a 1949 Argentine film.
Hidalgo: La historia jamás contada
Hidalgo:
La historia jamás contada is a Mexican film directed by Antonio Serrano.
It is about Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and his part in the Mexican War of Independence.
It the Mexico's forthcoming bicentenary that prompted Serrano to make the film, and premiered in Mexico City on September 16, 2010, the day after the bicentenary was celebrated.

Question: Do both films, Hidalgo: La Historia Jamás Contada and La Chair De L'Orchidée, have the directors who are from the same country?
Answer: no