Question: Do both Verdi, The King Of Melody and Little Big Soldier films have the directors from the same country?

Giuseppe Verdi, released theatrically in the USA as The Life and Music of Giuseppe Verdi and on video as Verdi, the King of Melody, is a 1953 Italian biographical musical melodrama film starring Pierre Cressoy and directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. It is based on adult life events of the composer Giuseppe Verdi. The film was a commercial success, grossing over 957 million lire at the Italian box office. <SEP> The film was produced with a budget of US$ 25 million and filmed between January 2009 and April 2009 at locations in Yunnan, China. According to Chan, the film was stuck in development hell for over 20 years. Little Big Soldier is a 2010 action comedy film directed by Ding Sheng and produced and written by Jackie Chan, also starring Chan and Leehom Wang. " Little Big Soldier" takes place during the Warring States period of China, and tells the story of three men and a horse. An old foot soldier( Chan) and a young high- ranking general from a rival state( Wang) become the only survivors of a ruthless battle. The soldier decides to capture the general and bring him back to his own state in hopes for a reward in return. <SEP> Little Big Man is a 1970 American western film directed by Arthur Penn and based on the novel" Little Big Man" by Thomas Berger. While broadly categorized as a western, or an epic, the film encompasses several literary/ film genres, including comedy, drama and adventure. It is about a white male child raised by the Cheyenne nation during the 19th century. The film is largely concerned with contrasting the lives of American pioneers and Native Americans throughout the progression of the boy's life. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey and Richard Mulligan. It is a revisionist Western: Native Americans are depicted sympathetically, and the United States Cavalry are depicted as villains. The revision uses elements of satire and tragedy to examine prejudice and injustice. " Little Big Man" is an anti-establishment film of the period, indirectly protesting America's involvement in the Vietnam War by portraying the U.S. military negatively. In 2014," Little Big Man" was deemed" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. <SEP> Born in Qingdao, Shandong, his works include" Little Big SoldierPolice Story 2013" and" Railroad Tigers"( 2016) both films directed by him and starring Jackie Chan. Ding Sheng( 丁晟) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. <SEP> Raffaello Matarazzo (Rome, 17 August 1909 – Rome, 17 May 1966) was an Italian filmmaker. <SEP> Wayne Kirkpatrick( born c. 1961) is an American songwriter and musician born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana but now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High School in 1979. His younger brother is American screenwriter and director Karey Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick has spent most of his career in the background, often providing background vocals, playing guitar, playing keyboards or writing songs for other artists. Writing in Contemporary Christian, Country, and Pop styles, his songs have been recorded by Little Big Town, Faith Hill, Garth Brooks, Babyface, Amy Grant, Joe Cocker, Kathy Mattea, Martina McBride, Wynonna Judd, Trisha Yearwood, Bonnie Raitt, Susan Ashton, Michael W. Smith, Jill Phillips, Michael Crawford, Peter Frampton, Casting Crowns and Eric Clapton, whose version of Kirkpatrick's" Change the World" won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. At the 24th GMA Dove Awards, Kirkpatrick received the award for Producer of the Year. In 2005, Kirkpatrick started to produce Little Big Town alongside the group starting with their second album The Road to Here and also the next 2 A Place to Land& The Reason Why. He also co-wrote most of the songs on all 3 albums with the group. Also in 2005, The Road to Here came out for Little Big Town. Kirkpatrick has writing credit on 12 of the 13 songs. He has solo writing credits on one song," Looking for the Reason", with the rest written with him and part/ all of the group or with other songwriters. He co-wrote with group members on their highest charting song" Bring It On Home", which made it to No. 4 on Hot Country 100 songs chart. Kirkpatrick also wrote Little Big Town's' signature' song," Boondocks", which they use as the closing song at every show. In 2007, Little Big Town and Kirkpatrick went back into the studio to make a new record, A Place to Land. He co-wrote 12 of the 16 tracks on the Deluxe Edition, including the very first song that Little Big Town sang together called" Love Profound". In 2010, the newest record from Little Big Town," The Reason Why", was released which Kirkpatrick co-produced. The record debuted at No. 1, a first for Little Big Town. He co-wrote 7 of the 12 songs with the group, including the hit" Little White Church". Kirkpatrick has said that Karen Fairchild, Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman and Philip Sweet have made him feel like the 5th member of the band. In 2000, Kirkpatrick released a solo project entitled" The Maple Room" that included" Wrapped Up in You", a song that would later become a hit for Garth Brooks, and" My Armageddon", which was originally slated for Brooks'" Garth Brooks in ... The Life of Chris Gaines" project. Kirkpatrick served as a primary songwriter on that album, along with Gordon Kennedy and Tommy Sims. Later in 2000, he teamed up with Kennedy and several other songwriters( Phil Madeira and Billy Sprague) to record" Coming From Somewhere Else", which was a CD of their own music that had previously been recorded by other artists, including" Change the World". Around 2010, Wayne and his brother Karey began working on the musical" Something Rotten!". In 2015, they were nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score( Music and/ or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre( along with many other awards), while Karey was also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical with British author John O' Farrell.