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

Sibi Malayil( born 2 May 1956) is an Indian film director who works in Malayalam cinema. <SEP> The film is remake of the 1936 film drama of the same name" Sisters of the Gion" by Kenji Mizoguchi. <SEP> It is one of many films based on the story of Taras Bulba. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Lucien Aguettand and Andrej Andrejew. 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. The costumes were designed by Georges Annenkov. Many of the film's production team were Russian exiles, who had left following the Russian Revolution. The rights to the film were bought by Alexander Korda who remade it in Britain as" The Rebel Son". <SEP> Granowsky was born as Abraham Azarkh to a Jewish family in Moscow. After studying in St. Petersburg, he went to Munich where he gained valuable theatre experience working under Max Reinhardt. 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. Granowsky's reputation rose quickly over the following years, as he became one of the most celebrated theatre directors in Europe. In 1925 Granowsky directed his first film, a silent, but concentrated his efforts on his stage work. 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. 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. In Germany Granowsky worked on some theatre productions, but increasingly moved into film. Alexis Granowsky( 1890 – 1937) was a Russian theatre director who later became a film director. He collaborated with a number of other Russian exiles such as Léo Lania who shared his left- wing political views. He directed two German films, before emigrating to Paris where he lived for the rest of his life. He produced and directed expensive prestige films" The Adventures of King Pausole"( 1933) and" Taras Bulba"( 1936). He had married a wealthy German woman, but they separated before his death. Despite his lavish lifestyle, Granowsky died comparatively poor. <SEP> Aksharam is a 1995 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Sibi Malayil. The film stars Suresh Gopi, Annie, and Jagathy Sreekumar in lead roles. 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. The film has a musical score by Perumbavoor G Ravindranath. In this movie, Gopi portrays a journalist, who loses everything for his job to find truth. <SEP> 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. It received an American release in 1970 under the title The Tartars. 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".