Question: Are the directors of both films Sensational Janine and Once Upon A Time (1918 Film) from the same country?

Hans Billian( born Hans Joachim Hubert Backe, April 15, 1918 in Breslau( today, Wrocław, Poland)- December 18, 2007 in Gräfelfing, Bavaria) was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor noted for the" sex comedies" he directed in the 1970s. He was also credited as" Hans BillanPhillip Halliday", and" Christian Kessler". <SEP> Once Upon a Time in the West( lit. " Once upon a time( there was) the West") is a 1968 epic Spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone. It stars Henry Fonda, cast against type, as the villain, Charles Bronson as his nemesis, Claudia Cardinale as a newly widowed homesteader, and Jason Robards as a bandit. The screenplay was written by Sergio Donati and Leone, from a story by Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci and Leone. The widescreen cinematography was by Tonino Delli Colli, and the acclaimed film score was by Ennio Morricone. After directing" The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", Leone decided to retire from Westerns and desired to produce his film based on" The Hoods", which eventually became" Once Upon a Time in America". However, Leone accepted an offer from Paramount Pictures to provide access to Henry Fonda and to use a budget to produce another Western film. He recruited Bertolucci and Argento to devise the plot of the film in 1966, researching other Western films in the process. After Clint Eastwood turned down an offer to play the movie's protagonist, Bronson was offered the role. During production, Leone recruited Donati to rewrite the script due to concerns over time limitations. The original version by the director was 166 minutes( 2 hours and 46 minutes) when it was first released on 21 December 1968. This was the version that was to be shown in European cinemas and was a box office success. For the US release on 28 May 1969," Once Upon a Time in the West" was edited down to 145 minutes( 2 hours and 25 minutes) by Paramount and was a financial flop. The film is the first installment in Leone's" Once Upon a Time Trilogy", followed by" Duck, You Sucker!" and" Once Upon a Time in America", though the films do not share any characters in common. In 2009, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". <SEP> Once Upon a Time is a 1918 British silent romance film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Lauri de Frece, Manora Thew and Dorothy Minto. The screenplay concerns a love affair that develops between a comedian and a clown's daughter. <SEP> He directed 68 films between 1912 and 1941. He directed three films in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound- on- film process," The Man in the Street"( 1926)," The Antidote"( 1927), and" Acci- Dental Treatment"( 1928). Thomas Bentley( 1884–1966) was a British film director. Bentley was born in London and originally trained as an engineer but went on to become a vaudeville performer well known for impersonating the characters from the novels of Charles Dickens on stage. His directing career in silent films began in 1910 with his adaptations of a number of Dickens' novels to film. After his retirement from directing in 1941 he became technical advisor to the British Film Council. <SEP> The film is an adaptation of the anonymous novel" Josephine Mutzenbacher" on the life of the eponymous and fictional" fin -de- siècle" Viennese courtesan. Sensational Janine is a 1976 West German hardcore costume drama- sex comedy film directed by Hans Billian. <SEP> Sergio Leone( January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, credited as the inventor of the Spaghetti Western genre and widely regarded as one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema. Leone's film- making style includes juxtaposing extreme close- up shots with lengthy long shots. His movies include the" Dollars Trilogy" of Westerns featuring Clint Eastwood:" A Fistful of Dollars"( 1964)," For a Few Dollars More"( 1965) and" The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"( 1966); and the" Once Upon a Time" films:" Once Upon a Time in the West"( 1968)," Duck, You Sucker!"( 1971) and" Once Upon a Time in America"( 1984).