Question: Which film has the director born earlier, Kakana Kote or Hercules, Samson And Ulysses?

Fred R. Krug is an American film and television producer- director born in Bern, Switzerland. <SEP> Kakana Kote is a 1977 Indian Kannada biographical drama film adapted from Masti Venkatesh Iyengar's stage play of the same name. The film plot tells the story of Kaka Nayaka who was instrumental in stopping the exploitation of tribal people in Mysore district against the tax payment from middlemen who were representing the ruling kingdom government. The film featured seasoned actors such as Lokesh, Lokanath, Srinath and Girija Lokesh in the lead roles. The film was critically acclaimed and premiered in many film festivals. It went on to win the third Best Film award at the Karnataka State Film Awards. The screenplay and dialogues were written by Girish Karnad and associate directed by Girish Kasaravalli. The film was directed by acclaimed theater artist C. R. Simha and the music was composed by C. Ashwath. <SEP> He was best known for his work in Kannada films and for his work in stage shows. Starting his career in Prabhat Kalavidaru, a famous theatre group based in Bangalore, he acted in numerous Kannada plays which reached the cult status. He started his own theatre group called" Nataranga" in 1972 and directed many successful plays such as" Kakana KoteThughlaq" and" Sankranthi". Simha also directed and acted in the Kannada adaptation of Shakespeare's" Midsummer Night's Dream" and" Othello". These plays found a widespread presentation across many states in India. Following this, he directed and acted in many English plays written by eminent personalities such as Moliere, Bernard Shaw, Edward Albee and Neil Simon among others. Apart from theatre, Simha acted in more than 150 feature films in Kannada which include both artistic and commercially viable projects. He also directed about five feature films with the most prominent being his own film adaptation of" Kakana Kote". Simha received many awards in both the cinema and theatre fields. Channapatna Ramaswami Simha( 16 June 1942 – 28 February 2014), better known as C. R. Simha, was an Indian actor, director, dramatist and playwright. In 2003, he was awarded with the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Award by the Government of India recognising his contribution to theatre acting and direction. <SEP> Samson and His Mighty Challenge is a 1964 Italian sword- and- sandal film, released in 1965 at the very tail end of the peplum craze. Its original title was Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili(" Hercules, Samson, Maciste, and Ursus: the Invincibles"). It is also known as" Samson and the Mighty ChallengeCombate dei Gigantes Battle of the Giants Triumph of the Giants" or" Le Grand Defi The Great Battle"). <SEP> Pietro Francisci (9 September 1906 – 1977) was an Italian film director, best remembered for the film "Hercules" (1958) which inspired the sword and sandal boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Born in Rome, his career took a distinct turn for the worse after he directed the 1966 science-fiction film "2+5 Missione Hydra", released in the U.S. in 1977 as "Star Pilot". <SEP> Hercules, Samson and Ulysses, is a 1963 Italian Metrocolor" peplum" film directed by Pietro Francisci. The costume designers for this movie used re-purposed Nazi helmets for the Philistine headgear.