Question: Do both directors of films The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years and The Holy Mountain (1926 film) share the same nationality?

Arnold Fanck (6 March 1889 – 28 September 1974) was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre. He is best known for the extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as "The Holy Mountain" (1926), "The White Hell of Pitz Palu" (1929), "Storm over Mont Blanc" (1930), "Der weisse Rausch" (1931), and "S.O.S. Eisberg" (1933). Fanck was also instrumental in launching the careers of several filmmakers during the Weimar years in Germany, including Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, and cinematographers Sepp Allgeier, Richard Angst, Hans Schneeberger, and Walter Riml. <SEP> She has directed both documentary film and scripted films. Her best known works include the trilogy titled" The Decline of Western Civilization", each covering an aspect of Los Angeles underground culture, and" Wayne's World", her highest- grossing film. Penelope Spheeris( born December 2, 1945 or 1946; sources differ) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. <SEP> The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: Filmed between August 1987 and February 1988, the film chronicles the late 80s Los Angeles heavy metal scene. It is the second film of a trilogy by Spheeris depicting life in Los Angeles at various points in time as seen through the eyes of struggling up-and-coming musicians. The first film, "The Decline of Western Civilization" (1981), dealt with the punk rock scene during 1979–1980. The Metal Years is a 1988 documentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris. The third film, "The Decline of Western Civilization III" (1998), chronicles the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers in the late 1990s. The film features a mix of live concert footage and interviews with established heavy metal performers such as Lemmy, Ozzy Osbourne, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Megadeth, and W.A.S.P.. Several unsigned L.A. club bands are also prominently featured, such as Odin and Seduce. <SEP> The Decline of Western Civilization is a 1981 American documentary filmed through 1979 and 1980. The movie is about the Los Angeles punk rock scene and was directed by Penelope Spheeris. In 1981, the LAPD Chief of Police Daryl Gates wrote a letter demanding the film not be shown again in the city. The film's title is possibly a reference to music critic Lester Bangs' 1970 two- part review of the Stooges' album" Fun House", for" Creem" magazine, where Bangs quotes a friend who had said the popularity of the Stooges signaled" the decline of Western civilization". Another possibility is that the title refers to Darby Crash's reading of Oswald Spengler's" Der Untergang des Abendlandes The Decline of the West"). In" We Got the Neutron Bomb", an oral history of the L.A. punk rock scene collected by Marc Spitz, Claude Bessy claims that he came up with the title. The film is the opening act of a trilogy by Spheeris, depicting music scenes in Los Angeles during the late 20th century. The second film,( 1988), covers the Los Angeles heavy metal scene of 1986 – 1988. The third film," The Decline of Western Civilization III"( 1998), chronicles the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers in the late 1990s. In 2016," The Decline of Western Civilization" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, being deemed" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". <SEP> Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris. The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors. <SEP> It was the future filmmaker Riefenstahl's first screen appearance as an actress. Written by Arnold Fanck and Hans Schneeberger, the film is about a dancer who meets and falls in love with an engineer at his cottage in the mountains. After she gives her scarf to one of his friends, the infatuated friend mistakenly believes that she loves him. The Holy Mountain is a 1926 German mountain film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker and Frida Richard. When the engineer sees her innocently comforting his friend, he mistakenly believes she is betraying him.