Manfred R. Köhler
Manfred R. Köhler born March 8, 1927 in Freiberg, Germany died 1991 was a German dubbing director who graduated to being a screenwriter and film director specialising in action films and popular entertainment in the 1960s.
He was billed with his middle initial to differentiate himself between the cinematographer and actor Manfred Köhler.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
The Promise (1979 film)
The Promise is a 1979 American drama film released by Universal Pictures which starred Kathleen Quinlan, Stephen Collins, and Beatrice Straight.
It was directed by Gilbert Cates and produced by Fred Weintraub and Paul Heller.
Weintraub and Heller also wrote the source story, which Garry Michael White dramatized; the resultant film was later novelized by Danielle Steel.
It was remade in India as the Hindi film" Yeh Vaada Raha"( 1982).
Gilbert Cates
Gilbert "Gil" Cates (né Katz; June 6, 1934 – October 31, 2011) was an American film director and television producer, director of the Geffen Playhouse, and founding dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Cates is most known for having produced the Academy Awards telecast a record 14 times between 1990 and 2008.<ref name="LAT2011/11"> </ref
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Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Agent 505: Death Trap in Beirut
Agent 505: Death Trap in Beirut/Agent 505 - Todesfalle Beirut/From Beirut with Love is a 1966 German/French/Italian international co-production Eurospy film shot in Lebanon.
It was produced and directed by Manfred R. Köhler.
The film stars Frederick Stafford in his second film and Renate Ewert in her final feature film.

Question: Are director of film Agent 505: Death Trap in Beirut and director of film The Promise (1979 film) both from the same country?
Answer: no