Piers Haggard
Piers Inigo Haggard OBE( born 18 March 1939) is a British theatre, film and television director, although he has worked mostly in the latter.
Haggard was born in London but grew up on a small farm in Clackmannanshire.
He is the great- great- nephew of H. Rider Haggard, and is the son of the actor, poet and novelist Stephen Haggard who died in 1943.
Haggard is married to stained glass artist Anna Sklovsky, with whom he has two children, the actress Daisy Haggard, and William Haggard who is an architect.
He has four children by his first marriage, Sarah, Claire, Rachel and Philip.
Haggard began his career as an assistant director at the Royal Court in 1960, then directed at Dundee Rep and Glasgow Citizens before joining the first National Theatre company in 1963 where he co-directed( John Dexter and Bill Gaskill) and assisted Laurence Olivier and Franco Zeffirelli.
In 1965 he moved to BBC Television, directing plays for the anthology drama series" Thirty- Minute Theatre" in the 1960s, later working on the more prestigious anthology shows," CallanPublic Eye, Armchair Theatre"( for ITV) and" Play for Today"( for the BBC).
He directed for a variety of programmes throughout the 1970s, such as" The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes The Love School, Love for Lydia and The Chester Cycle of Mystery Plays( 1976)."
Probably his best known work came later in the decade.
In 1978 he was the director of Dennis Potter's landmark drama serial" Pennies From Heaven" for the BBC, for which he received a BAFTA Award.
The following year he directed the ambitious science- fiction serial" Quatermass", a Euston Films production for Thames Television, shown on the ITV network.
Both of these productions are available on DVD, and the" Pennies From Heaven" release includes an audio commentary from Haggard.
His film work includes" Wedding Night"( 1970); the cult classic" The Blood on Satan's Claw"( 1970); the cinema version of" Quatermass"( 1980)" Summer Story"( 1988);" The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu"( 1980), Peter Sellers' last film; and" Venom"( 1982).
Haggard's audio commentary on" Venom" is well known for its forthrightness, and some hilarious anecdotes on the competitive antics of stars Oliver Reed and Klaus Kinski.
In 1982 he also directed" The Ticket of Leave Man" at the National Theatre.
Later television work included" Mrs Reinhardt( 1986)"; a number of US TV Specials with stars such as Liza Minnelli, Cheryl Ladd, and Judge Reinholdt; the Gerry Anderson science- fiction series" Space Precinct"( 1994); and various one- off TV dramas such as" Eskimo Day"( 1996)," Cold Enough For Snow"( 1997), and" The Hunt"( 2001).
The Canadian prairies- set" Conquest"( 1998) was his last feature film.
He directed Academy Award winners Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell in the 2006 mini-series" The Shell Seekers".
Haggard has also had a 40- year parallel career campaigning for directors ’ rights.
He was president of The Association of Directors and Producers in 1976; he founded and was first chairman of the Directors Guild of Great Britain( DGGB), formed in 1982 at a meeting of over a hundred film, theatre, and television directors, many of them world- famous, at Ronnie Scott's Club in London.
He started the Directors ’ and Producers' Rights Society( DPRS, 1987), serving on its board for 20 years, until it transmuted in 2007 into Directors UK, which he still serves as a board member.
He was also vice president and chairman of FERA, the Association of European film directors, from 2010 to 2013.
Haggard was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire( OBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to film, television, and theatre.
Back Home (film)
Back Home is a 1990 British- American made- for- television drama film based on Michelle Magorian's novel of the same name.
Directed by Piers Haggard, the film starred Hayley Mills, Hayley Carr, Brenda Bruce and Jean Anderson and premiered on Disney Channel on June 7, 1990.
In 2001, a feature film was also made.
Wolfgang Schleif
Wolfgang Schleif( 14 May 1912 – 21 August 1984) was a German editor, film director and screenwriter.
He studied philosophy, psychology and pedagogy at the University of Leipzig.
In 1934 he passed the State Examination for teachers at the Volksschule.
But then he took classes at the Acting School of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where he was trained in directing.
Schleif began working in film in 1935.
By 1938, he was an assistant director.
In 1939, he became a screenwriter and eventually an editor.
Among his assignments, he was one of the editors of the propaganda films" Jud Süß"( 1940) and" Kolberg"( 1945).
In 1947, Schleif was joined the DEFA film studio, making his directorial debut in 1948 with the anti-capitalist production.
This was followed by the 1949 film biography of Johann Friedrich Böttger," The Blue Swords".
After 17 June 1953, Schleif emigrated to West Germany.
With 1955 he managed an extraordinary success, which laid down his work but also for years on the production of such substances.
He made several hit movies starring Freddy Quinn, but also war films such as" Rommel ruft Cairo" and crime films such as" Der rote Rausch" and, in the early seventies, back to the Immenhof films," Die Zwillinge von ImmenhofTwins from Immenhof") and" Frühling im ImmenhofSpring in Immenhof").
Since the mid-sixties Schleif worked extensively for television.
He often led directed series and mini-series, particularly 1967 five episode series" Bürgerkrieg in RußlandCivil war in Russia").
He is buried in the Dahlem cemetery in Berlin.
Ben Barzman
Ben Barzman (October 12, 1910 – December 15, 1989) was a Canadian journalist, screenwriter, and novelist, blacklisted during the McCarthy Era and best known for his screenplays for the films "Back to Bataan" (1945), "El Cid" (1961), and "The Blue Max" (1966).
Alexander Tikhomirov
Alexander Konstantinovich Tikhomirov( born 3 January 1947) is a Russian former pair skater who represented the Soviet Union.
With Lyudmila Suslina, he is the 1968 Winter Universiade bronze medalist.
The pair also won silver at the 1967 Blue Swords, silver at the 1967 Prize of Moscow News, and gold at the 1968 Blue Swords.
The Blue Swords
The Blue Swords is a 1949 East German historical drama film directed by Wolfgang Schleif and starring Hans Quest, Ilse Steppat and Alexander Engel.
It sold more than 3,299,432 tickets.
The film portrays the life of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an alchemist of the early eighteenth century who was held prisoner by the Elector of Saxony in order to discover the secret of gold production.
Failing to accomplish this, which he knows to be impossible, he instead works to develop porcelain.
The title refers to the symbol of Meissen, a pair of crossed swords.
His story had previously been turned into a 1935 film" The King's Prisoner", released during the Nazi era.
The sets were designed by the art directors Karl Schneider and Erich Zander.
It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in East Berlin.
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Lyudmila Suslina
Lyudmila Pavlovna Suslina( born 5 October 1946) is a Russian former pair skater who represented the Soviet Union.
With Alexander Tikhomirov, she is the 1968 Winter Universiade bronze medalist.
The pair also won silver at the 1967 Blue Swords, silver at the 1967 Prize of Moscow News, and gold at the 1968 Blue Swords.
Into the Blue 2: The Reef
Into the Blue 2: The Reef is an American action film and a sequel to the 2005 film" Into the Blue".
It was directed by Stephen Herek and had a DVD release on April 21, 2009.
None of the cast from the first film return, it only shares similar themes and situations as" Into the Blue".
Chelsea McMullan
Chelsea McMullan is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, best known for her 2013 film" My Prairie Home", a film about transgender musician Rae Spoon.

Question: Do both films, The Blue Swords and Back Home (film), have the directors who are from the same country?
Answer: no