Thakazhi (film)
Thakazhi is a 1998 Malayalam documentary film made by M. T. Vasudevan Nair on renowned Malayalam writer, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai( 1912–1999).
The 57- minute film was written, directed and narrated by Nair for Sahitya Akademi.
The film's music was provided by Raveendran.
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais( 3 June 19221 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades.
After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included" Night and Fog"( 1956), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.
Resnais began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with" Hiroshima mon amour"( 1959)," Last Year at Marienbad"( 1961), and" Muriel"( 1963), all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past.
These films were contemporary with, and associated with, the French New Wave(" la nouvelle vague"), though Resnais did not regard himself as being fully part of that movement.
He had closer links to the" Left Bank" group of authors and filmmakers who shared a commitment to modernism and an interest in left- wing politics.
He also established a regular practice of working on his films in collaboration with writers previously unconnected with the cinema such as Jean Cayrol, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe- Grillet, Jorge Semprún and Jacques Sternberg.
In later films, Resnais moved away from the overtly political topics of some previous works and developed his interests in an interaction between cinema and other cultural forms, including theatre, music, and comic books.
This led to imaginative adaptations of plays by Alan Ayckbourn, Henri Bernstein and Jean Anouilh, as well as films featuring various kinds of popular song.
His films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness, memory, and the imagination, and he was noted for devising innovative formal structures for his narratives.
Throughout his career, he won many awards from international film festivals and academies.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
M. T. Vasudevan Nair
Madath Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair( born 9 August 1933), popularly known as MT, is an Indian author, screenplay writer and film director.
He is a prolific and versatile writer in modern Malayalam literature, and is one of the masters of post -Independence Indian literature.
He was born in Kudallur, a small village in the present day Anakkara panchayath in Pattambi Taluk, Palakkad district( Palghat), which was under the Malabar District in the Madras Presidency of the British Raj.
He shot into fame at the age of 20 when, as a chemistry undergraduate, he won the prize for the best short story in Malayalam at World Short Story Competition conducted by" The New York Herald Tribune".
His debut novel" NaalukettuAncestral Home"- translated to English as" The Legacy"), wrote at the age of 23, won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958.
His other novels include" ManjuMistKaalamTimeAsuravithu The Prodigal Son"- translated to English as" The Demon Seed") and" Randamoozham The Second Turn").
The deep emotional experiences of his early days have gone into the making of MT's novels.
Most of his works are oriented towards the basic Malayalam family structure and culture and many of them were path- breaking in the history of Malayalam literature.
His three seminal novels on life in the matriarchal family in Kerala are" NaalukettuAsuravithu", and" KaalamRandamoozham", which retells the story of the" Mahabharatha" from the point of view of Bhimasena, is widely credited as his masterpiece.
M. T. Vasudevan Nair is a script writer and director of Malayalam films.
He has directed seven films and written the screenplay for around 54 films.
He won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay four times for:" Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha"( 1989)," Kadavu"( 1991)," Sadayam"( 1992), and" Parinayam"( 1994), which is the most by anyone in the screenplay category.
He was awarded the highest literary award in India, Njnanpeedam, in 1995 for his overall contribution to Malayalam literature.
In 2005, India's third highest civilian honour Padma Bhushan was awarded to him.
He has won numerous other awards and recognition including Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, Vayalar Award, Vallathol Award, Ezhuthachan Award and Mathrubhumi Literary Award.
He was awarded the J.C. Daniel Award for lifetime achievement in Malayalam cinema for the year 2013.
He served as the editor of" Mathrubhumi Illustrated Weekly" for several years.
H Story
H Story is a 2001 Japanese drama film by writer-director Nobuhiro Suwa.
It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
It is an autobiographical docudrama about an attempt to remake Alain Resnais' 1959 film "Hiroshima Mon Amour".
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Hiroshima mon amour
Hiroshima mon amour(" Hiroshima My LoveNijūyojikan' nojōjiTwenty- four- hour affair") is a 1959 French Left Bank romantic drama film directed by French film director Alain Resnais, with a screenplay by Marguerite Duras.
It is the documentation of an intensely personal conversation between a French- Japanese couple about memory and forgetfulness.
It was a major catalyst for the Left Bank Cinema, making use of miniature flashbacks to create a nonlinear storyline.
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu( 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker.
Her script for the film" Hiroshima mon amour"( 1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.

Question: Are director of film Thakazhi (Film) and director of film Hiroshima Mon Amour both from the same country?
Answer: no