James Waterston
James Waterston( born January 17, 1969) is an American film, stage and television actor whose first role was playing Gerard Pitts in the 1989 film" Dead Poets Society".
David Robbins (composer)
David Robbins is an American music composer.
He is a brother of actor and director Tim Robbins.
He has written many works for television and films, including the films" Dead Man Walking" and" Bob Roberts".
Gale Hansen
Gale Hansen( born 1960) is an American film and television actor best known for playing Charlie Dalton in" Dead Poets Society".
He now works as a film executive.
Dead Poets Society
Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American drama film directed by Peter Weir, written by Tom Schulman, and starring Robin Williams.
Set in 1959 at the fictional elite conservative Vermont boarding school Welton Academy, it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry.
The film received critical acclaim and was a box office success.
It won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, the César Award for Best Foreign Film and the David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Film.
Schulman received an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his work.
Salut d'Amour (film)
Salut d' Amour( lit." Jang- soo's Mart" or" Jang- soo's Store") is a 2015 South Korean romance dramedy film starring Park Geun- hyung and Youn Yuh- jung and directed by Kang Je-gyu.
Nancy H. Kleinbaum
Nancy H. Kleinbaum( born 30 August 1948) is an American writer and journalist.
She is the author of the novel Dead Poets Society, which is based on the movie of the same name.
Kang Je-gyu
Kang Je-gyu( born December 23, 1962) is a South Korean film director.
Peter Weir
Peter Lindsay Weir, AM( born 21 August 1944) is an Australian film director.
He was a leading figure in the Australian New Wave cinema movement( 1970 – 1990), with films such as the mystery drama" Picnic at Hanging Rock"( 1975), the supernatural thriller" The Last Wave"( 1977) and the historical drama" Gallipoli"( 1981).
The climax of Weir's early career was the$ 6 million multi-national production" The Year of Living Dangerously"( 1983).
After the success of" The Year of Living Dangerously", Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films covering most genres—many of them major box office hits —including Academy Award- nominated films such as the thriller" Witness"( 1985), the drama" Dead Poets Society"( 1989), the romantic comedy" Green Card"( 1990), the social science fiction comedy- drama" The Truman Show"( 1998) and the financially- disappointing epic historical drama( 2003).
For his work on these five films, Weir personally accrued six Academy Award nominations as either a director, writer or producer.
Since 2003, Weir's productivity has declined, having directed only one subsequent feature, the critically acclaimed box- office flop" The Way Back"( 2010).
Tom Schulman
Thomas H. Schulman( born October 20, 1951) is an American screenwriter best known for his semi-autobiographical screenplay" Dead Poets Society".
The film won the Best Screenplay Academy Award in 1989, and was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director( Peter Weir).
Schulman earned a BA in philosophy from his hometown university, Vanderbilt.
Though Schulman had already written a number of telemovies," Dead Poets Society" was his first movie script to reach the screen.
He was hired to rewrite the hit movie" Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" shortly before the film was due to begin shooting; Schulman had just seven days to turn it from a drama into a comedy.
Other scripts written or co-written by Schulman include comedies" Welcome to Mooseport What About Bob?
Second Sight"( which Schulman sold the same day as" Dead Poets Society") and" Holy Man", which stars Eddie Murphy.
The Sean Connery drama" Medicine Man", originally entitled" The Stand", proved a critical failure.
Schulman Executive Produced the movie" Indecent Proposal".
Schulman's only film as director to date is 1997 black comedy" 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag", which stars Joe Pesci as a gangster attempting to transport a bag of severed heads across the United States.
In 2009, Schulman was elected vice president of the Writers Guild of America, West.
Schulman lives in Los Angeles with his wife, attorney Karen Gaul Schulman.
Josh Charles
Joshua Aaron Charles( born September 15, 1971) is an American actor.
He is best known for the roles of Dan Rydell on" Sports Night;" Will Gardner on" The Good Wife", which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations; and his early work as Knox Overstreet in" Dead Poets Society".

Question: Do both films Dead Poets Society and Salut D'Amour (Film) have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no