Question: Do director of film In the Name of the Law (1949 film) and director of film The Nun's Story (film) have the same nationality?

It Is based on Giuseppe Guido Lo Schiavo's novel" Piccola pretura". Federico Fellini co- wrote the script. The style of the film is close to Italian neorealism film movement. In the Name of the Law( or In nome della legge) is a 1949 Italian language mafia drama film directed by Pietro Germi. <SEP> Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower- middle- class family. Pietro Germi( 14 September 1914 – 5 December 1974) was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. He briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting. <SEP> The screenplay was written by Robert Anderson, based upon the popular 1956 novel of the same name by Kathryn Hulme. The film tells the life of Sister Luke( Hepburn), a young Belgian woman who decides to enter a convent and make the many sacrifices required by her choice. The film is a relatively faithful adaptation of the novel, which was based on the life of Belgian nun Marie Louise Habets. The Nun's Story is a 1959 American drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, and Peggy Ashcroft. Latter portions of the film were shot on location in the Belgian Congo and feature Finch as a cynical but caring surgeon. <SEP> Marie Louise Habets( January 1905- May 1986) was a Belgian nurse and former religious sister whose life was fictionalised as Sister Luke( Gabrielle van der Mal) in" The Nun's Story", a bestselling 1956 book by American author Kathryn Hulme. The Belgian- born actress Audrey Hepburn portrayed Gabrielle van der Mal in the 1959 Fred Zinnemann film" The Nun's Story", and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. <SEP> He won four Academy Awards for directing films in various genres, including thrillers, westerns, film noir and play adaptations. He made 25 feature films during his 50- year career. He was among the first directors to insist on using authentic locations and for mixing stars with civilians to give his films more realism. Within the film industry, he was considered a maverick for taking risks and there by creating unique films, with many of his stories being dramas about lone and principled individuals tested by tragic events. According to one historian, Zinnemann's style demonstrated his sense of" psychological realism and his apparent determination to make worthwhile pictures that are nevertheless highly entertaining." Among his films were" The Search"( 1947)," The Men"( 1950)," High Noon"( 1952)," From Here to Eternity"( 1953)," Oklahoma!"( 1955)," The Nun's Story"( 1959)," A Man For All Seasons"( 1966)," The Day of the Jackal"( 1973), and" Julia"( 1977). His films have received 65 Oscar nominations, winning 24. Alfred Zinnemann( April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an Austrian- born American film director. Zinnemann directed and introduced a number of stars in their U.S. film debuts, including Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Pier Angeli, Julie Harris, Brandon de Wilde, Montgomery Clift, Shirley Jones and Meryl Streep. He directed 19 actors to Oscar nominations, including Frank Sinatra, Montgomery Clift, Audrey Hepburn, Glynis Johns, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Gary Cooper and Maximilian Schell. <SEP> Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.