Question: Which film has the director died earlier, The English Patient (Film) or That Sweet Word: Liberty!?

Anthony Minghella,( 6 January 195418 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for" The English Patient"( 1996). In addition, he received three more Academy Award nominations; he was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for both" The English Patient"( 1996) and" The Talented Mr. Ripley"( 1999), and was posthumously nominated for Best Picture for" The Reader"( 2008), as a co-producer. <SEP> Vytautas Žalakevičius( 14 April 1930 – 12 November 1996) was a Lithuanian film director and writer. His 1973 film won the Golden Prize at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. <SEP> That Sweet Word: Liberty! Eto sladkoye slovo- svoboda!) is a 1973 Soviet drama film directed by Vytautas Žalakevičius. ( translit. The second part of the" Latin American trilogy", of which the first film was" The Whole Truth about Columbus" and the final one" Centaurs". It was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Golden Prize. The film was shot in Chile shortly before 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The basis for the plot is a real story: the escape from San-Carlos prison in Venezuela of three political prisoners- Guillermo García Ponce, Pompeyo Márquez and Teodoro Petkoff. <SEP> The film tells the story of four people who find themselves in an abandoned villa in northern Italy in the last months of World War II. The eponymous protagonist, a man burned beyond recognition who speaks with an English accent, tells his story to the young nurse caring for him in a series of flashbacks, revealing his true identity and the love affair he was involved in before the war. The film was released to critical acclaim, and received 12 nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, winning nine, including Best Picture, Best Director for Minghella, and Best Supporting Actress for Juliette Binoche. The English Patient is a 1996 American romantic war drama film directed by Anthony Minghella from his own script based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje and produced by Saul Zaentz. It was also the first to receive a Best Editing Oscar for a digitally edited film. Ralph Fiennes, playing the titular character, and Kristin Scott Thomas were Oscar- nominated for their performances. The film also won five BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globes. The British Film Institute ranked" The English Patient" the 55th greatest British film of the 20th century. <SEP> Thulasi is a 1987 Tamil romantic drama film directed by Ameerjan. The film features Murali and Seetha in lead roles. The film, produced by P. S. V. Hariharan, had musical score by Sampath Selvam and was released on 27 November 1987. The music director died before the release of the film. <SEP> Philip Michael Ondaatje,( born 12 September 1943), is a Sri Lankan- born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller Prize, the Booker Prize, and the Prix Médicis étranger. Ondaatje is also an Officer of the Order of Canada, recognizing him as one of Canada's most renowned living authors. Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing" The Dainty Monsters", and then in 1970 the critically acclaimed However, he is more recently recognized for his nationally and internationally successful novel" The English Patient"( 1992), which was adapted into a film in 1996. In 2018, Ondaatje won the Golden Man Booker Prize for" The English Patient". In addition to his literary writing, Ondaatje has been an important force in" fostering new Canadian writing" with two decades commitment to Coach House Press( around 1970 – 90), and his editorial credits on Canadian literary projects like the journal" Brick", and the" Long Poem Anthology"( 1979), among others.