Question: Do both directors of films Meenaxi: A Tale Of Three Cities and Goodbye, Franziska (1941 Film) have the same nationality?

He began his career at the end of the Weimar Republic and had released his first major films in Nazi Germany. His 1956 film" Der Hauptmann von Köpenick" was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 29th Academy Awards. Helmut Käutner( born 25 March 1908 in Düsseldorf, Germany; died 20 April 1980 in Castellina in Chianti, Italy) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s. Three years later, his film" The Rest Is Silence" was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. <SEP> He was a modern Indian painter of international acclaim, and a founding member of Bombay Progressive Artists' Group. Husain is associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. His early association with the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group used modern technique, and was inspired by the" new" India after the partition of 1947. His narrative paintings, executed in a modified Cubist style, can be caustic and funny as well as serious and sombre. His themes—sometimes treated in series —include topics as diverse as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the British Raj, and motifs of Indian urban and rural life. Husain's later works have stirred controversy, which included nude portrayals of Hindu deities, and a nude portrayal of Bharat Mata. Right- wing organizations called for his arrest, and several lawsuits were filed against him for hurting religious sentiments. He remained in a self- imposed exile from 2006 until his death in 2011, accepting Qatari citizenship in 2008. Maqbool Fida Husain better known as M. F. Husain( 17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) was an Indian painter, regarded as India ’s most prolific, controversial, and world- renowned artists. He also directed a few movies. In 1967, he received the National Film Award for Best Experimental Film for" Through the Eyes of a Painter". In 2004, he directed, a film he worked on with his artist son Owais Husain, which was screened in the Marché du film section of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. <SEP> It portrays the relationship between a globetrotting reporter and his devoted wife. The film was remade in 1957. After World War II, the Allied Forces banned the film from being shown in the German- occupied area because of its ending, which reminded the viewers to support the war effort. Director Käutner was eventually able to convince officials that the propaganda sequence was in no way a reflection of his political ideology and was added at request of Nazi censors. The remainder of the film was fairly apolitical, and, as such, it was brought back in circulation a few years later; the propaganda end sequence is not seen on current prints of the film. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios. Goodbye, Franziska is a 1941 German romance film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Marianne Hoppe, Hans Söhnker and Fritz Odemar. <SEP> The film is centered on Hyderabad novelist Nawab( Yadav) who is suffering from writer's block. After five years and no stories, Nawab comes across an unconventional muse, Meenaxi( Tabu). Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities( or Meenaxi) is a 2004 Hindi film directed by M.F. Husain and starring Tabu, Kunal Kapoor and Raghuvir Yadav. The three cities referred to in the title are Hyderabad, Jaisalmer and Prague. The film features an acclaimed score and soundtrack by A.R.Rahman. It is semi-autobiographical in some respects. There are allusions to Husain's own experiences with his muse, Madhuri Dixit, with whom he made his previous film," Gaja Gamini"( 2000). The film was screened in the Marché du Film section of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. <SEP> Goodbye, Franziska is a 1957 West German romance film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Carlos Thompson and Josef Meinrad. It is a remake of the 1941 film of the same name. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gottfried Will and Rolf Zehetbauer. <SEP> Satan Town is a 1926 American Western film featuring Harry Carey. Prints of the film have survived.