Question: Are the directors of films Taras Bulba (1936 film) and Aksharam both from the same country?

<P0-S0> It is one of many films based on the story of Taras Bulba. <P0-S1> Taras Bulba( French: Tarass Boulba) is a 1936 French historical drama film directed by Alexis Granowsky and starring Harry Baur, Jean- Pierre Aumont and Danielle Darrieux. <P0-S2> The film's sets were designed by the art directors Lucien Aguettand and Andrej Andrejew. <P0-S3> The costumes were designed by Georges Annenkov. <P0-S4> Many of the film's production team were Russian exiles, who had left following the Russian Revolution. <P0-S5> The rights to the film were bought by Alexander Korda who remade it in Britain as" The Rebel Son". <SEP> <P1-S0> Granowsky was born as Abraham Azarkh to a Jewish family in Moscow. <P1-S1> After studying in St. Petersburg, he went to Munich where he gained valuable theatre experience working under Max Reinhardt. <P1-S2> He served in the Russian army during the First World War before in 1919 he set up his own Jewish- orientated theatre in St. Petersburg, which under a new director became GOSET. <P1-S3> Granowsky's reputation rose quickly over the following years, as he became one of the most celebrated theatre directors in Europe. <P1-S4> In 1925 Granowsky directed his first film, a silent, but concentrated his efforts on his stage work. <P1-S5> After the Russian Revolution, and the Communist victory in the Russian Civil War, Granowsky continued to live in the country even though he felt himself culturally Western European. <P1-S6> Alexis Granowsky( 1890 – 1937) was a Russian theatre director who later became a film director. <P1-S7> Granowsky was initially feted by the Soviet authorities and was awarded a number of honours but he began to find their cultural policies increasingly restrictive, and emigrated to the Weimar Republic in the late 1920s. <P1-S8> In Germany Granowsky worked on some theatre productions, but increasingly moved into film. <P1-S9> He collaborated with a number of other Russian exiles such as Léo Lania who shared his left- wing political views. <P1-S10> He directed two German films, before emigrating to Paris where he lived for the rest of his life. <P1-S11> He produced and directed expensive prestige films" The Adventures of King Pausole"( 1933) and" Taras Bulba"( 1936). <P1-S12> He had married a wealthy German woman, but they separated before his death. <P1-S13> Despite his lavish lifestyle, Granowsky died comparatively poor. <SEP> <P2-S0> Sibi Malayil( born 2 May 1956) is an Indian film director who works in Malayalam cinema. <SEP> <P3-S0> The film is remake of the 1936 film drama of the same name" Sisters of the Gion" by Kenji Mizoguchi. <SEP> <P4-S0> The film stars Suresh Gopi, Annie, and Jagathy Sreekumar in lead roles. <P4-S1> This film is noted for the first screen appearance of famous south Indian actor Kalabhavan Mani, who did a cameo role of an auto rickshaw driver. <P4-S2> The film has a musical score by Perumbavoor G Ravindranath. <P4-S3> In this movie, Gopi portrays a journalist, who loses everything for his job to find truth. <P4-S4> Aksharam is a 1995 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Sibi Malayil. <SEP> <P5-S0> Taras Bulba, the Cossack( Italian: Taras Bulba, il cosacco) is a 1962 Italian historical adventure film directed by Ferdinando Baldi and starring Vladimir Medar, Jean- François Poron and Fosco Giachetti. <P5-S1> It received an American release in 1970 under the title The Tartars. <P5-S2> Based on the 1835 novel of the same title by Nikolay Gogol, it was made the same year as a much larger budget version" Taras Bulba".