Question: Are director of film The Mechanik and director of film Prathigne both from the same country?

Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> The Mechanik( released under the alternative title The Russian Specialist) is a 2005 German- American action film directed and co-written( with Bryan Edward Hill) by, as well as starring, Dolph Lundgren. The movie co-stars Ben Cross. <SEP> Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre. <SEP> The film stars Rajkumar, K. S. Ashwath, Narasimharaju and Ganapathi Bhat in the lead roles. Prathigne (Kannada: ಪ್ರತಿಜ್ಞೆ) is a 1964 Indian Kannada film, directed by B. S. Ranga and produced by B. S. Ranga. The film has musical score by S. Hanumantha Rao. <SEP> Bindiganavile Srinivas Iyengar Ranga( 11 November 1917 – 12 December 2010) was an Indian photographer, actor, producer and director who has made many landmark movies in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. He was also the owner of Vikram Studios. <SEP> Lundgren's breakthrough came in 1985, when he starred in" Rocky IV" as the imposing Soviet Union boxer Ivan Drago. Since then, he has starred in more than 40 films, almost all of them in the action genre. Lundgren received a degree in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in the early 1980s and a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney in 1982. He holds the rank of 3rd" dan" black belt in Kyokushin karate and was European champion in 1980 – 81. While in Sydney, he became a bodyguard for Jamaican singer Grace Jones and began a relationship with her. He received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT and moved to Boston. Jones convinced him to leave the university and move to New York City to be with her and begin acting, where, after a short stint as a model and bouncer at the Manhattan nightclub The Limelight, Lundgren got a small debut role as a KGB henchman in the James Bond film" A View to a Kill". After appearing in" Rocky IV", Lundgren portrayed He- Man in the 1987 science fantasy film" Masters of the Universe", Lt. Rachenko in" Red Scorpion"( 1988) and Frank Castle in the 1989 film" The Punisher". Throughout the 1990s he appeared in films such as" I Come in Peace"( 1990)," Cover- Up"( 1991)," Showdown in Little Tokyo"( 1991)," Universal Soldier" film series( 1992, 2009, 2012)," Joshua Tree"( 1993)," Pentathlon"( 1994)," Men of War"( 1994)," Johnny Mnemonic"( 1995),( 1995)," Silent Trigger"( 1996)," The Peacekeeper"( 1997), and" Blackjack"( 1998). In 2004 he directed his first film," The Defender", and subsequently directed" The Mechanik"( 2005)," Missionary Man"( 2007)," Command Performance"( 2009), and" Icarus"( 2010), also starring in all of them. After a long spell performing in direct- to- video films since 1995, Lundgren returned to Hollywood in 2010 with the role of Gunnar Jensen in" The Expendables", alongside Sylvester Stallone and an all- action star cast. He reprised his role in" The Expendables 2"( 2012) and" The Expendables 3"( 2014). Hans Lundgren( born 3 November 1957), better known as Dolph Lundgren, is a Swedish actor, filmmaker, martial artist and chemical engineer. Also in 2014, he co-starred in" Skin Trade", an action thriller about human trafficking he co-wrote and produced. The film marks his third collaboration with Cary- Hiroyuki Tagawa, the previous two being" Showdown in Little Tokyo"( 1991) and" Bridge of Dragons"( 1999). He reprised his role of Ivan Drago in" Creed II"( 2018), and is due to reprise his role as Gunner Jensen in" The Expendables 4"( 2020). He appears in( 2017), playing the protagonist's son Gil as an adult, and in" Aquaman"( 2018), playing the father of Mera. He also had a recurring role in the fifth season of" Arrow"( 2012 – present), playing antagonist Konstantin Kovar.