Question: Are the directors of both films The Possessed (1965 Film) and Devotion (1950 Film) from the same country?

I Want Your Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film. Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews. The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons. The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes. The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword. This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively. <SEP> The film is adapted from the famous Italian novel" L' Edera" written by Grazia Deledda and published in 1908. Devotion( Italian title L'edera) is a 1950 Italian melodrama film directed by Augusto Genina. <SEP> The Possessed is a 1965 Italian mystery film written and directed by Luigi Bazzoni and Franco Rossellini and starring Peter Baldwin, Virna Lisi and Philippe Leroy. It is based on the novel" La donna del lago" by Giovanni Comisso. <SEP> Born in Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy, Bazzoni was the elder brother of the film director and cinematographer Camillo Bazzoni and a cousin of the Academy Award winner Vittorio Storaro. He began his career as assistant director of Mauro Bolognini. Later he became director of films and short films, gaining critical attention for two spaghetti westerns," L' Uomo, l'orgoglio, la vendetta" and" Blu Gang- Vissero per sempre felici e ammazzati". His short film" Di Domenica" achieved a Special Mention at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. Luigi Bazzoni( 25 June 1929- 1 March 2012) was an Italian director and screenwriter. <SEP> The War of the Volcanoes( Italian original title La guerra dei vulcani) is a 2012 documentary film directed by detailing the filming of Roberto Rossellini's 1950 film" Stromboli" starring Ingrid Bergman as well as the 1950 film" Volcano" starring Anna Magnani. <SEP> He was a movie producer and director. Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the" Il Mondo" Magazine, under advise of Aldo de Benedetti switches to movies for the" Film d' Arte Italiana", that produces his first film" La moglie di sua eccellenza". In 1929 Genina moved to France to direct Louise Brooks in sonorized film" Miss Europe". He studied sound techniques and worked in France and Germany in same but alternate languages film versions which were filmed simultaneously, before his return to Italy. Augusto Genina( 28 January 1892 – 18 September 1957) was an Italian film pioneer. He won Venice Film Festival Mussolini's cup for Best Italian Film twice, in 1936 by" Lo squadrone bianco" and in 1940 by" The Siege of the Alcazar", both Fascist propaganda films. In 1953, he filmed" Three Forbidden Stories", another version of the real accident depicted by Giuseppe De Santis one year before in" Rome 11 o'clock Roma ore 11").