Question: Were Serguei Kouchnerov and Carlos Diegues from the same country?

Context articles: Marília Pêra
Tieta of Agreste
Quilombo (film)
Carlos Diegues
A Summer Rain
Serguei Kouchnerov
Xica
Joanna Francesa
The Greatest Love of All (film)
Helber Rangel

Marília Pêra (22 January 1943 – 5 December 2015) was a Brazilian actress.
 Hailed as "one of the decade's [1980s] ten best actresses" by Pauline Kael, Pêra won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1982 for her role in Hector Babenco's acclaimed "Pixote", and received Best Actress awards at the Gramado Film Festival (Triple Award Winner) and at the Cartegena Film Festival for Carlos Diegues' "Better Days Ahead".
 Other films include "Bar Esperança", "Angels of the Night" and Diegues' "Tieta do Agreste".
Tieta do Agreste (Portuguese: Tieta do Agreste ) is a 1996 Brazilian comedy film directed by Carlos Diegues.
 The film was selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 69th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Quilombo is a 1984 Brazilian drama film directed by Carlos Diegues.
 It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
 The film is based on the history of the Quilombo dos Palmares.
Carlos Diegues, also known as Cacá Diegues, (born May 19, 1940) is a Brazilian film director.
 He was born in Maceió, Alagoas, and is best known as a member of the Cinema Novo movement.
A Summer Rain (Portuguese: Chuvas de Verão ) is a 1978 Brazilian comedy-drama film directed by Carlos Diegues.
 It tells the story of Afonso, a newly retired sixty-five-year-old man who falls in love with his neighbor.
Serguei Kouchnerov (born 22 June 1960 in Rahachow, Belarusian SSR) - artist, animator, director, story artist and screenwriter.
 He started his career as an animator and director in Kiev, Ukraine.
 In 1992, he was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation as a character animator and came to the United States of America, where he currently lives and works at Illumination Entertainment.
Xica (Portuguese: Xica da Silva ) is a 1976 Brazilian comedy film directed and written by Carlos Diegues, based on the novel by , which is a romanticized retelling of the true story of Chica da Silva, an 18th-century African slave in Brazil, who attracts the attention of a powerful Portuguese land-owner and eventually rises into the Brazilian high society.
 The movie stars Zezé Motta, Walmor Chagas and José Wilker.
 It was chosen as the Brazilian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 49th Academy Awards, but it failed to get a nomination.
Joanna Francesa is a 1973 French-Brazilian romantic drama film directed by Carlos Diegues and starring Jeanne Moreau, Eliezer Gomes and Carlos Kroeber.
 In the 1930s, Joanna, the owner of a brothel in São Paulo, goes to Alagoas and falls in love with a customer.
The Greatest Love of All (Portuguese: O Maior Amor do Mundo ; also known as The Greatest Love in the World) is a 2006 Brazilian romantic drama film directed by Carlos Diegues.
 Filming took place in 60 locations in Rio de Janeiro.
Helber Rangel (1944–2002) was a Brazilian film actor.
 He debuted on Carlos Diegues' 1973 film "Joanna Francesa".
 In 1979, he won the Gramado Film Festival Best Actor Award for his performance on Ipojuca Pontes's "A Volta do Filho Pródigo".