Question: Are the directors of films The Racket Man and Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film) both from the same country?

Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 American biographical war drama film based on the 1952 book of the same name written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer on his experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during World War II, the interim period, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army's invasion of Tibet in 1950. In the story, Austrians Heinrich Harrer (Pitt) and Peter Aufschnaiter (Thewlis) are mountaineering in British India in an area that is now Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan. When World War II begins in 1939, their German citizenship results in their imprisonment by the British in a POW camp in Dehradun in the Himalayan foothills, in the present-day Indian state of Uttarakhand. In 1944, Harrer and Aufschnaiter escape the prison, and cross the border into Tibet, traversing the treacherous high plateau. While in Tibet, after initially being ordered to return to India, they are welcomed at the holy city of Lhasa, and become absorbed into an unfamiliar way of life. Harrer is introduced to the 14th Dalai Lama, who is still a boy, and becomes one of his tutors. During their time together, Heinrich becomes a close friend to the young spiritual leader. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Brad Pitt and David Thewlis, the score was composed by John Williams and features cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Harrer and Aufschnaiter stay in the country until the Chinese military campaign in 1950. <SEP> Annaud has received numerous awards for his work, including five César Awards, one David di Donatello Award, and one National Academy of Cinema Award. Annaud's first film, "Black and White in Color" (1976), received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Jean-Jacques Annaud (born 1 October 1943) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing "Quest for Fire" (1981), "The Name of the Rose" (1986), "The Bear" (1988), "The Lover" (1992), "Seven Years in Tibet" (1997), "Enemy at the Gates" (2001) and "Wolf Totem" (2015). <SEP> Starting out as an extra in Mack Sennett's Keystone Cops series, Lederman worked his way through the ranks of film production, and first made his mark as a second-unit director. He directed several B-Western serials in the early 1930s, such as "Two-Fisted Law" and "Texas Cyclone" both 1932, in which he worked with Tim McCoy and a young John Wayne. David Ross Lederman (December 12, 1894 – August 24, 1972) was an American film director noted for his Western/action/adventure films of the 1930s and 1940s. Becoming a full feature director in the late 1930s, Lederman specialized in action films and especially westerns, continuing to produce films with McCoy at Columbia Pictures. <SEP> The Racket Man is a 1944 American crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman. <SEP> The Racket is a 1928 American silent crime drama film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, and George E. Stone. The film was produced by Howard Hughes, written by Bartlett Cormack and Tom Miranda, and was distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was adapted from Cormack's 1927 Broadway play" The Racket. <SEP> Richard B. Goodwin( born 13 September 1934) is a British film producer. As a producer, he received an Academy Award nomination for" A Passage to India"( 1984). His other films include" The Tales of Beatrix Potter"( 1971)," Murder on the Orient Express"( 1974)," Death on the Nile"( 1978)," The Mirror Crack'd"( 1980)," Evil Under the Sun"( 1982)," Little Dorrit"( 1987), and" Seven Years in Tibet"( 1997).