Question: Do both films, Case 39 and Crime Without Passion, have the directors who are from the same country?

Guenther Reinhardt( 1904- 1968) was a German- born American writer and investigator, best known for his book" Crime Without Punishment: The Secret Soviet Terror Against America"( 1952). <SEP> Case 39 is a 2009 American supernatural psychological horror film directed by Christian Alvart, and starring Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Bradley Cooper and Ian McShane. <SEP> Prior to working in the film business Christian Alvart worked in various positions, most recently as a senior editor at Filmmagzin X- TRO. In 1999 he made his debut as a film director with the thriller" Curiosity& the Cat", for which he also wrote the screenplay. Christian Alvart( born 28 May 1974 in Jugenheim) is a German filmmaker and screenwriter. His next film was the thriller" Antibodies". Alvart's first English- language film was" Case 39", followed by" Pandorum". His latest film is" Do n't. Get. Out!". In March 2010, it was announced that Christian Alvart secured the film rights for Captain Future and is working on a live- action adaptation in 3D. <SEP> It is the first of four pictures written, produced and directed by Hecht and MacArthur for Paramount Pictures. Crime Without Passion is a 1934 American drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, starring Claude Rains. Sixty to seventy percent of the film was directed by cinematographer Lee Garmes. The plot centers around a clever and suave but unscrupulous and dishonest lawyer, Lee Gentry( Rains) who boasts that he" lives by lies". His attempts to finish his affair with a clinging, besotted cabaret artist do not go according to plan. <SEP> A journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films. Ben Hecht( February 28, 1893 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. At the age of 16, Hecht ran away to Chicago, where, in his own words, he" haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls, and bookshops". In the 1910s and early 1920s, Hecht became a noted journalist, foreign correspondent, and literary figure. In the 1920s, his co-authored, reporter- themed play," The Front Page", became a Broadway hit. The" Dictionary of Literary Biography- American Screenwriters" calls him" one of the most successful screenwriters in the history of motion pictures". Hecht received the first Academy Award for Best Story for" Underworld"( 1927). Many of the screenplays he worked on are now considered classics. He also provided story ideas for such films as" Stagecoach"( 1939). Film historian Richard Corliss called him the" Hollywood screenwriter", someone who" personified Hollywood itself". In 1940, he wrote, produced, and directed" Angels Over Broadway", which was nominated for Best Screenplay. In total, six of his movie screenplays were nominated for Academy Awards, with two winning. Hecht became an active Zionist after meeting Peter Bergson. Shortly before the Holocaust began in Germany, he wrote articles and plays about the plight of European Jews, such as" We Will Never Die" in 1943 and" A Flag is Born" in 1946. Of his seventy to ninety screenplays, he wrote many anonymously to avoid the British boycott of his work in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The boycott was a response to Hecht's active support of paramilitary action against British forces in Palestine and sabotaging British property there( see below), during which time a supply ship to Palestine was named the" S. S. Ben Hecht." According to his autobiography, he never spent more than eight weeks on a script. In 1983, 19 years after his death, Ben Hecht was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. <SEP> Michael Bean is a Canadian actor, author, acting coach, and the founder of Biz Studio. He is known for his work on the films" Case 39"( 2009)," The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"( 2009)," The Day the Earth Stood Still" and" Jennifer's Body"( 2009), and for guest spots on the television series" ArrowPretty Little LiarsSupernatural" and" Smallville".