Question: Which film has the director who was born first, Joseph & Mary or Tabu: A Story Of The South Seas?

He won an Academy Award for his work on the original" Star Wars" and was Oscar- nominated for his work on" Alien". Christian directed the second unit on both" Return of the Jedi" and as well as feature films including" The Sender" and" Nostradamus". He also directed the 2000 film" Battlefield Earth" which is regarded as one of the worst films ever made, but is now considered a" so bad it's good" type of cult film. Roger Christian( born 25 February 1944) is an English set decorator, production designer and feature film director. <SEP> Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. ; December 28, 1888March 11, 1931) was a German film director. During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air force, surviving several crashes without any severe injuries. One of Murnau's acclaimed works is the 1922 film "Nosferatu", an adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula". Although not a commercial success, owing to copyright issues with Stoker's novel, the film is considered a masterpiece of German Expressionist cinema. He later directed the 1924 film "The Last Laugh", as well as a 1926 interpretation of Goethe's "Faust". He later emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joined the Fox Studio and made three films:  (1927), "4 Devils" (1928) and "City Girl" (1930). " Sunrise" has been regarded by critics and film directors as among the best films ever made. In 1931, Murnau travelled to Bora Bora to make the film  (1931) with documentary film pioneer Robert J. Flaherty, who left after artistic disputes with Murnau, who had to finish the movie on his own. A week prior to the opening of the film "Tabu", Murnau died in a Santa Barbara hospital from injuries he had sustained in an automobile accident that occurred along the Pacific Coast Highway near Rincon Beach, southeast of Santa Barbara. Of the 21 films Murnau directed, eight are considered to be completely lost. One reel of his feature "Marizza, genannt die Schmuggler-Madonna" survives. This leaves only 12 films surviving in their entirety. <SEP> The film is split into two chapters. The first, called" Paradise", depicts the lives of two lovers on a South Seas island until they are forced to escape the island when the girl is chosen as a holy maid to the gods. The second chapter," Paradise Lost", depicts the couple's life on a colonised island and how they adapt to and are exploited by Western civilisation. The title of the film comes from the Polynesian concept of" tapu"( spelled" tabu" in Tongan before 1943), from which is derived the English word" taboo." Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, sometimes simply called Tabu, is a 1931 silent film directed by F. W. Murnau, a docufiction. The film's story was written by Robert J. Flaherty and F. W. Murnau; with the exception of the opening scene, the film was directed solely by Murnau. This was his last film; he died in the hospital after an automobile accident on March 11, 1931, a week before the film's premiere in New York City. Cinematographer Floyd Crosby won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on this film. In 1994," Tabu: A Story of the South Seas" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". <SEP> Joseph& Mary is a 2016 biblical drama film directed by Roger Christian and starring Kevin Sorbo as Joseph. It portrays the birth and early life of Jesus under the rule of King Herod the Great of the Roman Empire in the 1st century and includes an allegory about forgiveness involving the rabbi Elijah, a fictional character invented for the film. <SEP> Hassan Zee is a Pakistani- American film director who was born in Chakwal, Pakistan. <SEP> Frederick O'Brien( 1869- 1932) was an American author, journalist, hobo, peripatetic world traveler, and public administrator. He wrote three best- selling travel books about French Polynesia between 1919 and 1922:" White Shadows in the South Seas, Mystic Isles of the South Seas," and" Atolls of the Sun." A movie was made in 1928 of" White Shadows in the South Seas".