Question: Do both directors of films My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done and The Silent Partner (1978 Film) share the same nationality?

Duke was born at Vancouver, British Columbia, where he became one of CBC Television's earliest regional producers. His career continued with CBC in Toronto producing such series as" This Hour Has Seven Days", then in the United States for major television networks and studios there. In 1977, he won the Canadian Film Award for best Director for his surprise hit" The Silent Partner". His significant achievement in television was directing the Emmy Award winning miniseries" The Thorn Birds". Duke was also among those responsible for the creation of CKVU- TV in Vancouver which is today part of the Citytv franchise. Daryl Duke( 8 March 1929 – 21 October 2006) was a Canadian film and TV director. Noteworthy is that he produced and directed early Bob Dylan" song films," black and white vignettes that were the forerunners of today's music videos. He was inducted to the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame and Starwalk in 1997. Duke died in West Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2006 due to pulmonary fibrosis. <SEP> The film stars Michael Shannon as Brad McCullam, a mentally unstable man who kills his own mother (played by Grace Zabriskie) after becoming obsessed with a play he is starring in. The film follows a hostage situation resulting from the murder, while also showing the events of McCullam's life leading up to the murder in flashback, with Willem Dafoe appearing as the lead detective, and Chloë Sevigny as McCullam's fiancée. While based on a true story, Herzog has stated that "about 70 percent of the script is false", with Herzog and Golder desiring to deviate from the true events, and instead focus on the main character's mental state. The film was conceived and written in 1995, but Herzog and Golder were unable to find anyone to produce it. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is a 2009 crime drama film directed by Werner Herzog, and written by Herzog and Herbert Golder. David Lynch eventually became interested, and produced the film through his production company Absurda. The film premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival on September 5, 2009, where it was nominated for the Golden Lion, along with another film directed by Herzog, . This marked the first time that two films in one year by the same director were nominated for the award. <SEP> Professor, My Son( also known as" My Son, the Professor") is a 1946 Italian comedy- drama film written and directed by Renato Castellani. <SEP> Herbert Golder is a professor of Classical Studies at Boston University. He has a Ph.D. in classical languages and literature from Yale University. His specialty is Greek mythology and he has to his credit a number of books and films. He played Rabbi Edelmann in the Werner Herzog film" Invincible", he was also an assistant director on that film and the cowriter of My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? In addition, he is the Editor- in- Chief of" Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics". <SEP> It stars Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer and Susannah York. The Silent Partner( French title:" L'argent de la banque") is a 1978 Canadian heist film directed by Daryl Duke. The film was the first to be produced by Carolco Pictures and one of the earliest films from within the country to take advantage of the Canadian government's" Capital Cost Allowance" incentive plan, which gave production companies tax inducements to make commercial films in Canada. It has been called" one of the few truly good films to come out of the tax- shelter heyday of the 1970s." " The Silent Partner" is also notable for being one of the very few films to have a score composed by jazz great Oscar Peterson, and for featuring an early big- screen appearance by John Candy. " The Silent Partner" is a remake of the Danish film" Think of a NumberTænk på et tal") from 1969 written and directed by Palle Kjærulff- Schmidt, based on the novel" Tænk på et tal" by Danish writer Anders Bodelsen. <SEP> Herzog is a figure of the New German Cinema. Werner Herzog( born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature. Werner Herzog made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature- and documentary films, such as" Aguirre, the Wrath of God"( 1972)," Nosferatu the Vampyre"( 1978)," Fitzcarraldo"( 1982)," Lessons of Darkness"( 1992)," Little Dieter Needs to Fly"( 1997)," My Best Fiend"( 1999)," Invincible"( 2000)," Grizzly Man"( 2005)," Encounters at the End of the World"( 2007),( 2009), and" Cave of Forgotten Dreams"( 2010). He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog" the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog" has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by" Time" magazine in 2009.