Question: Do both films The Last Communist and The Easiest Way (1917 film) have the directors that share the same nationality?

Amir Muhammad( born 5 December 1972) is a Malaysian writer and independent filmmaker. <SEP> It is based on a 1909 play," The Easiest Way" by Eugene Walter, staged by David Belasco and starred Frances Starr as Laura Murdock. The Easiest Way is a 1917 American silent film starring Clara Kimball Young and directed by Albert Capellani. Belasco and Starr revived the play in 1921. It is not known whether the film currently survives. Actor Joseph Kilgour reprises his role as Brockton from the Broadway play. <SEP> The Easiest Way is a 1931 American pre-Code MGM drama film directed by Jack Conway. Adapted from the 1909 play of the same name written by Eugene Walter and directed by David Belasco, the film stars Constance Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Montgomery, Marjorie Rambeau, Anita Page, and Clark Gable <SEP> He directed films between 1905 and 1922. One of his brother was the actor-sculptor Paul Capellani. and another the film director Roger Capellani. Capellani, along with his brother Paul, studied acting under Charles le Bargy at the Conservatoire de Paris. Starting his career as an actor, he worked with the director André Antoine at the Théâtre Libre and the Odéon. He then began directing plays for the Odéon, working alongside the lauded actor and director. In 1903, he became the head of the Alhambra music hall in Paris. He continued to work as an actor and director until he received a job offer from the Pathé Frères studio in 1905. Charles Pathé, who held high hopes for the artistic potential of film as a medium, invited him to join the artistic staff under the direction of Ferdinand Zecca. When Pathé in 1908 launched a" prestige" production unit, the Société des Auteurs et des Gens de Lettres( SCAGL), Capellani became its first artistic director. During his Pathé career, he worked as an adviser and supervisor to various directors, including Michel Carré, Georges Denola, Henri Étiévant, and Georges Monca. He often drew upon his theatrical background to cast stage actor colleagues for his films, such as Henry Krauss, who appeared as Quasimodo in his" The Hunchback of Notre Dame"( 1911) and as Jean Valjean in his( 1912). " Les Misérables" also gave the actress Mistinguett her first important screen role. His films cover many genres, including melodramas, fairy tales, costume dramas with historical and biblical themes, and literary adaptations, especially after taking up directorship of SCAGL in 1908. Characteristics of his style include a keen sense for staging actors in three- dimensional space, dynamic use of location filming, and an attention to subtle, realistic details that highlight the humanity of his characters. Albert Capellani( 23 August 1874 – 26 September 1931) was a French film director and screenwriter of the silent era. In 1914 he served in the French army as an officer but was wounded in at the battle of Soissons near Champaigne First Battle of Champagne. He was released from duty but because of the war was unable to direct films in France. In 1915, he moved to the United States and worked for the film studios Pathé Exchange, Metro Pictures Corporation, the World Film Company, Cosmopolitan Productions, Nazimova Productions, and his own newly created studio, Capellani Productions, Inc. Under his direction, Alla Nazimova rose to prominence as one of the greatest silent film stars in Hollywood. Capellani returned to France in 1923, where he floated several new film projects but was unable to bring any to fruition. He died of diabetes in 1931. <SEP> The Flame of the Yukon( 1926) is a silent Northwoods adventure- drama film starring Seena Owen and directed by George Melford. The film is based on a story by Monte Katterjohn and was distributed by Cecil DeMille's PDC( Producers Distributing Corporation). The film is a remake of a 1917 film that had starred Dorothy Dalton. The 1917 film survives at the Library of Congress. The 1926 film, once thought to be lost, is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. <SEP> It is inspired by the leader of the disbanded Malayan Communist Party, Chin Peng and the Malayan Emergency( 1948 – 1960) during which more than 10,000 Malayan and British troops and civilians lost their lives. The film was banned from screening in Malaysia by the government's Home Affairs Ministry. The film features interviews with people in the towns in which Peng lived from birth to national independence, interspersed with songs that are fashioned after propaganda films. The Last Communist is a 2006 Malaysian film described by director Amir Muhammad as a" semi-musical documentary". " The Last Communist" made its world premiere at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival. It has also been shown at the Seattle International Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the Singapore International Film Festival and the Hong Kong International Film Festival, but has never been publicly shown in its home country. The film has been uploaded in its entirety on YouTube.