Question: Which film has the director who is older than the other, Long Days of Vengeance or The Apartment? 

It is the only western directed by Vancini, here credited as Stan Vance. Long Days of Vengeance( is a 1967 Western film directed by Florestano Vancini. The film is a spaghetti western version of Alexandre Dumas' novel" The Count of Monte Cristo". <SEP> He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age of cinema. With" The Apartment", Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film. Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin. After the rise of the Nazi Party, he left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut. Billy Wilder( born Samuel Wilder, June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian- born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades. He moved to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay for the romantic comedy" Ninotchka", starring Greta Garbo. Wilder established his directorial reputation with an adaption of James M. Cain's" Double Indemnity"( 1944), a film noir. Wilder co-wrote the screenplay with crime novelist Raymond Chandler. Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story" The Lost Weekend"( 1945), about alcoholism. In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed" Sunset Boulevard", as well as" Stalag 17" in 1953. From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made mostly comedies. Among the classics Wilder created in this period are the farces" The Seven Year Itch"( 1955) and" Some Like It Hot"( 1959), and satires such as" The Apartment"( 1960). He directed fourteen different actors in Oscar- nominated performances. Wilder was recognized with the American Film Institute( AFI) Life Achievement Award in 1986. In 1988, Wilder was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. <SEP> The story follows C. C. “ Bud ” Baxter( Lemmon), an insurance clerk who, in the hope of climbing the corporate ladder, lets more-senior coworkers use his Upper West Side apartment to conduct extramarital affairs. The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, alongside Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Willard Waterman, David White, Hope Holiday and Edie Adams. Bud is attracted to the elevator operator, Fran Kubelik( MacLaine), who in turn is having an affair with Bud's immediate boss, Sheldrake( MacMurray). " The Apartment" was distributed by United Artists to favorable reviews and commercial success, despite controversy owing to its subject matter. At the 33rd Academy Awards," The Apartment" was nominated for ten awards and won five, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Lemmon and MacLaine were Oscar-nominated and won Golden Globe Awards for their performances in the film. It provided the basis for" Promises, Promises", a 1968 Broadway musical by Burt Bacharach, Hal David and Neil Simon. In the years since its release," The Apartment" has come to be regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, appearing in lists by the American Film Institute and" Sight and Sound" magazine, and being selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry. <SEP> Florestano Vancini( Ferrara, 24 August 1926- Rome, 18 September 2008) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed over 20 films since 1960. His 1966 film" Le stagioni del nostro amore", starring Enrico Maria Salerno, was entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1973 film" The Assassination of Matteotti" was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize. In 1999 he was a member of the jury at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival. <SEP> Elliot Silverstein( born August 3, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American director, who is best known for being the director of the movie" Cat Ballou"( 1965). <SEP> Long Days of Hate( Italian: I lunghi giorni dell'odio, also known as This Man Ca n't Die) is a 1968 Italian spaghetti western film directed by Gianfranco Baldanello.