Question: Do both films: His Girl Friday and Anna Karenina (1967 film) have the directors from the same country?

It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. Anna Karenina is a 1967 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi, based on the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. <SEP> Khabardaar is a 2005 comedy Marathi movie produced and directed by Mahesh Kothare and starring Bharat Jadhav, Sanjay Narvekar and Nirmiti Sawant. It tells the story of a crime reporter of the newspaper named Khabardaar and the journey he embarks with a truck driver to catch an escaped prisoner. This movie is inspired by 1940 Hollywood movie His Girl Friday. <SEP> It was released by Columbia Pictures. The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man. Burns suggests they cover one more story together, getting themselves entangled in the case of murderer Earl Williams as Burns desperately tries to win back his wife. The screenplay was adapted from the play" The Front Page" by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. This was the second time the play had been adapted for the screen, the first occasion being the 1931 film also called" The Front Page". The script was written by Charles Lederer and Ben Hecht, who is not credited for his contributions. The major change in this version, introduced by Hawks, is that the role of Hildy Johnson is a woman. His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy drama romance film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Filming began in September 1939 and finished in November, seven days behind schedule. Production was delayed because the frequent improvisation and numerous ensemble scenes required many retakes. Hawks encouraged his actors to be aggressive and spontaneous, creating several moments in which the characters break the fourth wall. " His Girl Friday" has been noted for its surprises, comedy, and rapid, overlapping dialogue. Hawks himself was determined to break the record for the fastest film dialogue, at the time held by" The Front Page". He used a sound mixer on the set to increase the speed of dialogue and held a showing of the two films next to each other to prove how fast his film was. " His Girl Friday" was# 19 on American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs and was selected in 1993 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film is in the public domain because the copyright was not renewed, though the play it was based on is still under copyright. <SEP> Melanie Ann Oliver is a New Zealand film editor. She is best known for her works in the films" Anna Karenina"( 2012)," Les Misérables"( 2012)," The Danish Girl"( 2015) and" Victoria& Abdul"( 2017). Oliver won a BAFTA Award for editing the successful television film" Longford"( 2006), as well as being twice nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for editing part two of the miniseries" Elizabeth I"( 2005) and episode" Independence" of the miniseries" John Adams"( 2008). <SEP> Aleksandr Zarkhi was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1969 and received Stalin Prize in 1946. Aleksandr Grigoryevich Zarkhi( 18 February 1908 – 27 January 1997) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and playwright. His film" Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky" was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival in 1981. <SEP> Critic Leonard Maltin called him" the greatest American director who is not a household name." A versatile film director, Hawks explored many genres such as comedies, dramas, gangster films, science fiction, film noir, and westerns. Howard Winchester Hawks( May 30, 1896 December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. His most popular films include" Scarface"( 1932)," Bringing Up Baby"( 1938)," Only Angels Have Wings"( 1939)," His Girl Friday"( 1940)," To Have and Have Not"( 1944)," The Big Sleep"( 1946)," Red River"( 1948)," The Thing from Another World"( 1951)," Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"( 1953), and" Rio Bravo"( 1959). His frequent portrayals of strong, tough- talking female characters came to define the" Hawksian woman". In 1942, Hawks was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for" Sergeant York". In 1974, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award as" a master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema." His work has influenced various popular and respected directors such as Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Jean- Luc Godard, John Carpenter, and Quentin Tarantino.