Question: Do both films Taras Bulba (1936 Film) and Petersen (Film) have the directors from the same country?

It is one of many films based on the story of Taras Bulba. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Lucien Aguettand and Andrej Andrejew. The costumes were designed by Georges Annenkov. Taras Bulba( French: Tarass Boulba) is a 1936 French historical drama film directed by Alexis Granowsky and starring Harry Baur, Jean- Pierre Aumont and Danielle Darrieux. Many of the film's production team were Russian exiles, who had left following the Russian Revolution. The rights to the film were bought by Alexander Korda who remade it in Britain as" The Rebel Son". <SEP> Granowsky was born as Abraham Azarkh to a Jewish family in Moscow. After studying in St. Petersburg, he went to Munich where he gained valuable theatre experience working under Max Reinhardt. He served in the Russian army during the First World War before in 1919 he set up his own Jewish- orientated theatre in St. Petersburg, which under a new director became GOSET. Alexis Granowsky( 1890 – 1937) was a Russian theatre director who later became a film director. Granowsky's reputation rose quickly over the following years, as he became one of the most celebrated theatre directors in Europe. In 1925 Granowsky directed his first film, a silent, but concentrated his efforts on his stage work. After the Russian Revolution, and the Communist victory in the Russian Civil War, Granowsky continued to live in the country even though he felt himself culturally Western European. Granowsky was initially feted by the Soviet authorities and was awarded a number of honours but he began to find their cultural policies increasingly restrictive, and emigrated to the Weimar Republic in the late 1920s. In Germany Granowsky worked on some theatre productions, but increasingly moved into film. He collaborated with a number of other Russian exiles such as Léo Lania who shared his left- wing political views. He directed two German films, before emigrating to Paris where he lived for the rest of his life. He produced and directed expensive prestige films" The Adventures of King Pausole"( 1933) and" Taras Bulba"( 1936). He had married a wealthy German woman, but they separated before his death. Despite his lavish lifestyle, Granowsky died comparatively poor. <SEP> Rachel Holzer( 1899–1998) was an internationally acclaimed Australian Jewish theatre actress and director. As an actress, her most famous role was that of the Mother in Aleksander Marten's 1936 film" I Have Sinned". <SEP> Taras Bulba, the Cossack( Italian: Taras Bulba, il cosacco) is a 1962 Italian historical adventure film directed by Ferdinando Baldi and starring Vladimir Medar, Jean- François Poron and Fosco Giachetti. It received an American release in 1970 under the title The Tartars. Based on the 1835 novel of the same title by Nikolay Gogol, it was made the same year as a much larger budget version" Taras Bulba". <SEP> " Petersen" was a box office success and received wide distribution in the UK and US under the title Jock Petersen. " Petersen" is first and foremost a sobering critique of Australian life in the early 1970s. " Petersen" is considered one of the better social dramas from the early years of the Australian film revival. Stanley Kubrick praised the film on its release, particularly Burstall's direction and Jack Thompson's lead performance. Petersen is a 1974 Australian drama film directed by Tim Burstall. Jack Thompson won the Hoyts Prize for Best Performance at the 1975 AFI Awards for his performance in" Petersen". <SEP> A key figure in Australian postwar cinema, Burstall was instrumental in rebuilding the Australian film industry at a time when it had been effectively dead for over a decade. He created groundbreaking Australian films including" StorkEnd PlayEliza Fraser The Last of the Knucklemen" and the 1987 adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel" Kangaroo". Burstall's films featured early appearances by many legendary Australian actors including Jack Thompson, Bruce Spence, Jacki Weaver," Alvin" star Graeme Blundell, John Waters and Judy Davis. Burstall's wife, Betty Burstall, an important figure in her own right, founded the pioneering La Mama Theatre in Melbourne in the late 1960s, with which Tim was involved. Speaking just after Burstall's death, David Williamson said that Burstall" could n't stomach" Australia's lack of a film industry. Timothy Burstall AM( 20 April 1927 – 19 April 2004) was an English Australian film director, writer and producer, best known for hit Australian movie" Alvin Purple"( 1973) and its sequel" Alvin Rides Again". " He was determined to do something about it and he had the energy and spirit to do it. ( He) was a very important cultural figure: highly intelligent, widely read, with a succinct and often highly controversial opinion on everything."