Question: Are Michael Hofmann and Martin Ritt both from the same country ?

Context articles: Conrack
Hombre (film)
The Outrage
Michael Hofmann (sumi-e)
What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933
Martin Ritt
Edge of the City
Five Branded Women
Michael Hofmann (director)
Hud (1963 film)

Conrack is a 1974 DeLuxe Color film in Panavision based on the 1972 autobiographical book "The Water Is Wide" by Pat Conroy, directed by Martin Ritt and starring Jon Voight in the title role, alongside Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Hume Cronyn and Antonio Fargas.
 The film was released by 20th Century Fox on March 27, 1974.
Hombre is a 1967 revisionist western film directed by Martin Ritt, based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard and starring Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Martin Balsam, and Diane Cilento.
The Outrage (1964) is a remake of the 1950 Japanese film "Rashomon", reformulated as a Western.
 It was directed by Martin Ritt and is based on stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
 Like the original Akira Kurosawa film, four people give contradictory accounts of a rape and murder.
 Ritt utilizes flashbacks to provide these contradictory accounts.
Michael Hofmann is an artist and teacher.
 He has been an active sumi-e painter since moving from the United States to Japan in 1972.
 For 33 years Hofmann worked closely with (1904-2005), the prominent sumi-e painter, Abbot of Kokusei-ji Temple, Awajishima and Director of Japan's National Association of Nanga Painters.
 Hofmann has taught sumi-e ink painting at universities, museums and cultural institutions in both Japan and the United States.
 He has illustrated numerous books and his work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums.
What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933 is a book of reportage by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth from the era of the Weimar Republic.
 The selection of pieces from Roth's large journalistic output was made by Michael Bienert and published in German in 1996.
 The English translation with the present title was made by Michael Hofmann and appeared in 2003.
Martin Ritt (March 2, 1914 – December 8, 1990) was an American director and actor who worked in both film and theater.
 He was born in New York City.
Edge of the City is a 1957 American film-noir drama film directed by Martin Ritt, starring John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier.
 It was Ritt's debut film as a director.
 Robert Alan Aurthur's screenplay was expanded from his original script, staged as the final episode of "Philco Television Playhouse", "A Man Is Ten Feet Tall" (1955), also featuring Poitier.
Five Branded Women is a 1960 Italian-American international co-production film directed by Martin Ritt and produced by Dino De Laurentiis.
 It featured an international cast including Silvana Mangano, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau and Vera Miles and was Ritt's only war movie, set during the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia.
 Film was shot in Italy and Austria (Klagenfurt).
Michael Hofmann (born 1961) is a German film director.
Hud is a 1963 Western film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas and Patricia Neal.
 It was produced by Ritt and Newman's recently founded company, Salem Productions, and was their first film for Paramount Pictures.
 "Hud" was filmed on location on the Texas Panhandle, including Claude, Texas.
 Its screenplay was by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. and was based on Larry McMurtry's 1961 novel, "Horseman, Pass By".
 The film's title character, Hud Bannon, was a minor character in the original screenplay but was reworked as the lead role.
 With its main character an antihero, "Hud" was later described as a revisionist Western.