Question: Do both films: Smarty (Film) and Crime And Punishment (1998 Film) have the directors from the same country?

It stars Patrick Dempsey and Ben Kingsley. Crime and Punishment is a 1998 American made- for- television drama film directed by Joseph Sargent. <SEP> Though he directed many television movies, his best known feature- length works were arguably the theatrical releases: Burt Reynolds action movie" White Lightning", Gregory Peck biopic" MacArthur", and horror anthology" Nightmares". His most popular feature film was subway thriller" The Taking of Pelham One Two Three". Joseph Sargent( born Giuseppe Danielle Sorgente; July 22, 1925 – December 22, 2014) was an American film director. Sargent won four Emmy Awards over his career. He is the father of anime dubbing voice actress Lia Sargent. <SEP> Born as Robert Fuchs in Paris, he became an orphan at an early age and was then raised in Switzerland. In 1920 he worked at first as a film journalist, then as an assistant and extra in featurettes from Louis Feuillade. Florey moved to the United States in 1921. As a director, Florey's most productive decades were the 1930s and 1940s, working on relatively low- budget fillers for Paramount and Warner Brothers. His reputation is balanced between his avant- garde expressionist style, most evident in his early career, and his work as a fast, reliable studio- system director called on to finish troubled projects, such as 1939's" Hotel Imperial". He directed more than 50 movies. Robert Florey( 14 September 1900 – 16 May 1979) was a French- American director, screenwriter, film journalist and actor. His most popular film is likely the first Marx Brothers feature" The Cocoanuts" of 1929, and his 1932 foray into Universal- style horror," Murders in the Rue Morgue" is regarded by horror fans as highly reflective of German expressionism. In 2006, as his 1937 film" Daughter of Shanghai" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, Florey was called" widely acclaimed as the best director working in major studio B-films". <SEP> Neramu Siksha( నేరము – శిక్ష)( English: Crime and Punishment) is a 1973 Telugu drama film written and produced by M. Balaiah with adapted screenplay and direction by K. Viswanath. The film is a Telugu adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's" Crime and Punishment"( 1866). The film received positive reviews from critics. <SEP> It was adapted from F. Hugh Herbert's play by Carl Erickson( writer). The film's title refers to Blondell's character, happily married but with a habit of provocative teasing. Smarty, known in the United Kingdom as Hit Me Again, is a 1934 American Pre- Code comedy film directed by Robert Florey and starring Warren William and Joan Blondell. One evening her teasing leads to a slap on the face from her husband. For this she engages her husband's friend and attorney Vernon( Horton) to divorce him, marries Vernon, then begins to verbally tease him as well, wearing revealing clothes, and inviting her ex-husband over for dinner. <SEP> Rob Schmidt( born September 25, 1965) is an American film director and writer. His film credits include" Wrong Turn" and" Crime and Punishment in Suburbia". He also created a pilot called American Town for Twentieth Century Fox. He directed a" Masters of Horror" episode called" Right to Die." His thriller" The Alphabet Killer", which reunited him with Eliza Dushku(" Wrong Turn"), Martin Donovan(" Right to Die"), and Michael Ironside(" Crime and Punishment in Suburbia"), has been picked up for international distribution by New Films International. Rob is currently a film Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.