Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami( 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer.
An active film- maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries.
Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the" Koker" trilogy( 1987– 1994)," Close- Up"( 1990)," The Wind Will Carry Us"( 1999), and" Taste of Cherry"( 1997), which was awarded the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year.
In later works," Certified Copy"( 2010) and" Like Someone in Love"( 2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively.
His films" Where Is the Friend ’s Home? Close- Up", and" The Wind Will Carry Us" were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture.
" Close- Up" was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial" Sight& Sound" poll conducted in 2012.
Kiarostami had worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and had designed credit titles and publicity material.
He was also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer.
He was part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and includes pioneering directors such as Bahram Beyzai, Nasser Taghvai, Ali Hatami, Masoud Kimiai, Dariush Mehrjui, Sohrab Shahid- Saless and Parviz Kimiavi.
These filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues.
Kiarostami had a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary- style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras.
He is also known for his use of Persian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films.
Kiarostami's films contain a notable degree of ambiguity, an unusual mixture of simplicity and complexity, and often a mix of fictional and documentary elements.
The concepts of change and continuity, in addition to the themes of life and death, play a major role in Kiarostami's works.
Vittorio Cottafavi
Vittorio Cottafavi( 30 January 1914 – 14 December 1998) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
He directed 70 films between 1943 and 1985.
His film" Il diavolo sulle colline" was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
Kate O'Flynn
Kate O'Flynn is a British actress who has appeared on stage at the National Theatre in productions of" Port" and" A Taste of Honey" and in films including" Up There" and" Mr. Turner".
Hercules in the Haunted World
Hercules in the Haunted World( Italian:" Ercole al centro della terra", lit.
" Hercules at the center of the Earth") is a 1961 Italian sword- and- sandal film directed by Mario Bava.
British bodybuilder Reg Park plays Hercules while British actor Christopher Lee appears as Hercules' nemesis Lico.
Shooting at Cinecittà, director Mario Bava used some of the same sets from the earlier" Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis" which had already starred Reg Park.
Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus
Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus is a 1965 Italian" peplum" film directed by Domenico Paolella.
Hercules and the Black Pirates
Hercules and the Black Pirates(/" Samson Against the Black Pirate"), also known as" Hercules and the Pirates" and" Hercules and the Black Pirate", is a 1963 Italian pirate- peplum film directed by Luigi Capuano and starring Alan Steel.
Homayoun Ershadi
Homayoun Ershadi( sometimes spelled Homayon Ershadi,, born March 25, 1947) is an Iranian actor, best known for his role in the film" Taste of Cherry".
Hercules the Avenger
Hercules the Avenger is a 1965 Italian adventure film directed by Maurizio Lucidi.
It was composed mostly of re-edited stock footage from Reg Park's two 1961 Hercules films," Hercules at the Conquest of Atlantis" and" Hercules in the Haunted World".
Taste of Cherry
Taste of Cherry(" Ta ’m- e gīlās ...") is a 1997 Iranian drama film written, produced and directed by Abbas Kiarostami.
It is a minimalist film about a man who drives through a city suburb, in search of someone who can carry out the task of burying him after he commits suicide.
It was awarded the Palme d' Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, which it shared with The Eel.
It is regarded as one of the greatest driving films of all time.
Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis
Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis is a 1961 film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi and starring Reg Park in his film debut as Ercole/ Hercules.
It was originally released in Super Technirama 70.
The film is also known as" Hercules Conquers Atlantis" in the United Kingdom, and Hercules and the Captive Women in the United States where the film was not only retitled but edited, rescored and given a title design by Filmation.

Question: Do both films, Hercules And The Conquest Of Atlantis and Taste Of Cherry, have the directors who are from the same country?
Answer: no