Question: Are  Bent Hamer and Luchino Visconti from the same continent?

Context articles: Eriprando Visconti
Philip Øgaard
Bellissima (film)
O' Horten
Bent Hamer
Luchino Visconti (film)
House of Visconti
1001 Grams
Luchino Visconti
Music from the Motion Picture O'Horten

Eriprando Visconti di Modrone, Count of Vico Modrone (September 24, 1932 – May 25, 1995) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer.
 He was the nephew of the more famous Luchino Visconti.
Philip Remi Øgaard (born 6 April 1948) is a Norwegian cinematographer.
 Since 1983, Philip Øgaard has photographed more than 30 feature films, and has come to be recognized as one of Norway's premier cinematographers.
 He frequently collaborates with directors Martin Asphaug, Bent Hamer and Hans Petter Moland.
Bellissima (1951) is an Italian neorealism film by Italian director Luchino Visconti.
 The film, which is a satire of the film industry, was shot at the Cinecittà studios.
 Alessandro Blasetti, a contemporary film director, appears as himself.
 Bellissima is the only feature film in Visconti's oeuvre with a predominantly comic tone.
O' Horten is a 2007 Norwegian language film directed by Bent Hamer.
 The film's title character Odd Horten is a habit-bound train driver, who is about to retire.
 On the day of his retirement he ends up in an unexpected situation, and is forced to reconsider his life.
 As in other films by Hamer, the themes are loneliness and old age, and the courage to take chances.
 "O' Horten" has been described as a film without a strong plot or a clear chronology.
Bent Hamer (born 18 December 1956) is a film director, writer and producer, born in Sandefjord, Norway in 1956.
Luchino Visconti is a 1999 Italian documentary film about the filmmaker Luchino Visconti and directed by Carlo Lizzani.
 It stars Claudia Cardinale.
Visconti is the family name of two important Italian noble dynasties of the Middle Ages.
 There are two distinct Visconti families: the first one (chronologically) in the Republic of Pisa in the mid twelfth century who achieved prominence first in Pisa, then in Sardinia, where they became rulers of Gallura.
 The second family rose to power in Milan, where they ruled from 1277 to 1447, and where several collateral branches still exist.
 Pope Gregory X, who reigned from 1271 to 1276, was a member of the Visconti family of Milan.
 The renowned film director Luchino Visconti was a scion of this latter family's Visconti of Modrone branch.
1001 Grams (Norwegian: 1001 Gram ) is a 2014 Norwegian drama film written and directed by Bent Hamer.
 It was selected as the Norwegian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976), was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter.
 He is best known for his films "Ossessione" (1943), "Senso" (1954), "Rocco and His Brothers" (1960), "The Leopard" (1963) and "Death in Venice" (1971).
With the tragicomedy O'Horten, Norwegian writer-director Bent Hamer (Factotum, Kitchen Stories) returns to his domestic landscapes, off-beat humanism and stylistic quirks of earlier works.
 The bittersweet episodic tale of an ultra-dedicated locomotive engineer uneasily transitioning into retirement provides warm and gently humorous entertainment.
 At the age of 67, loner (but not lonely) Odd Horton (Bard Owe) is forced to step down from his engine-driving job.
 An encounter with Trygve Sissener (Espen Skjonberg), an elderly gent with a cheerful "it's never too late" philosophy, inspires Horten to finally take off his uniform and open himself to things he never previously tried.