Question: Are the directors of films Portrait Of Gina and Dawn (1929 Film) both from the same country?

He is considered one of the greatest film directors of all time. While in his twenties Welles directed a number of high- profile stage productions for the Federal Theatre Project, including an adaptation of" Macbeth" with an entirely African American cast and the political musical" The Cradle Will Rock". In 1937 he and John Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory theatre company that presented a series of productions on Broadway through 1941, including" Caesar"( 1937), a Broadway adaptation of William Shakespeare's" Julius Caesar". In 1938, his radio anthology series" The Mercury Theatre on the Air" gave Welles the platform to find international fame as the director and narrator of a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel" The War of the Worlds", which caused widespread panic because many listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was actually occurring. Although some contemporary sources say these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated, they rocketed Welles to notoriety. His first film was" Citizen Kane"( 1941), which is consistently ranked as one of the greatest films ever made, which he co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in as Charles Foster Kane. Welles released twelve other features, the most acclaimed of which include" The Magnificent Ambersons"( 1942)," The Lady from Shanghai"( 1947)," Touch of Evil"( 1958)," The Trial"( 1962)," Chimes at Midnight"( 1966) and" F for Fake"( 1973). Welles was an outsider to the studio system, and struggled for creative control on his projects early on with the major film studios in Hollywood and later in life with a variety of independent financiers across Europe, where he spent most of his career. Many of his films were either heavily edited or remained unreleased. Some, like" Touch of Evil", have been painstakingly re-edited from his notes. George Orson Welles( May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer and producer who is remembered for his innovative work in radio, theatre and film. With a development spanning almost 50 years, Welles's final film," The Other Side of the Wind", was released in 2018. His distinctive directorial style featured layered and nonlinear narrative forms, uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unusual camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots and long takes. He has been praised as" the ultimate auteur". Welles had three marriages, including one with Rita Hayworth, and three children. Known for his baritone voice, Welles performed extensively across theatre, radio and film. He was a lifelong magician noted for presenting troop variety shows in the war years. In 2002 he was voted the greatest film director of all time in two British Film Institute polls among directors and critics. He was also included in the list of the 50 greatest Hollywood actors of all time by The Telegraph UK. <SEP> " For the 1929 film see The Laughing Lady( 1929 film)" The Laughing Lady is a 1946 British Technicolor musical drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth and Francis L. Sullivan. Based on a play by Ingram D'Abbes, its plot follows a young aristocrat who makes a deal with Robespierre during the French Revolution. <SEP> The film's sets were designed by Fritz Willi Krohn. Dawn or Red Morning( German: Morgenröte) is a 1929 German silent film directed by Wolfgang Neff and Burton George and starring Paul Henckels, Werner Fuetterer and Carl de Vogt. <SEP> It was funded by ABC TV. Around 30 minutes long, it follows a similar style to" The Fountain of Youth"( 1958) and" F for Fake"( 1973). It was intended to be the pilot for a television series called" Around the World with Orson Welles", which is also the name of a series Welles made in 1955 for British commercial television. The film is about Italy( Welles's third wife, Paola Mori was of Italian nationality) where the film maker lived and worked intermittently for about 20 years( roughly 1947- 1969). The picture discusses both negative and positive aspects of Italian culture. Actress Gina Lollobrigida, who is interviewed at the end of the film, has refused to allow the public release of the film, reportedly because she was displeased by its portrayal of her as an ambitious young actress. Vittorio De Sica, Rozzano Brazzi, Anna Gruber and Welles' wife, Paola Mori, are also briefly interviewed, and the film moves along at a rapid speed: it is cut' quick on the eye' in the style of Welles's film- making. Portrait of Gina, or Viva Italia is a 1958 documentary film by Orson Welles. When Welles submitted the film to ABC, they complained that they only received one reel of unorthodox material which they deemed unshowable, and it was never broadcast. Two years earlier, Welles had made another TV program, on Alexandre Dumas, père. It too was rejected as being incompetent, while a further programme made in 1956," The Fountain of Youth", was originally rejected on similar grounds( although it ended up getting a late- night screening in 1958, resulting in a Peabody Award). In the late 1950s, Welles left the only copy of" Viva Italia" in his hotel room at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris. The film cans were unmarked, and ended up in the hotel's lost- and- found department and were eventually moved to a storage facility. The film was thought to be permanently lost until it was discovered in 1986. It was at that point that it was finally given a public showing at the Venice Film Festival, which is where Lollobrigida saw it and took legal recourse to have it banned, which it remains to this day. Between the Italian film festival screening and the completion of Lollobrigida's legal proceedings, the film did have one broadcast on German television( with German subtitles), and so despite the Lollobrigida ban, bootleg recordings of this broadcast circulate to this day. <SEP> Tony Orlando and Dawn is a television variety show that aired from 1974 – 1976 on CBS. The show featured the American pop music group Tony Orlando and Dawn. The show was entitled" The Tony Orlando and Dawn Rainbow Hour" during the 1976 – 1977 television season. <SEP> He directed 50 films between 1920 and 1930. He was born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria- Hungary( now Czech Republic). Wolfgang Neff( 8 September 1875 – after November 1936) was an Austrian film director.