Question: Do both films: Buddy Buddy and The Believer (Film) have the directors from the same country?

The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on the 1973 French language film" L'emmerdeur", which screenwriter Francis Veber had adapted from his play" Le contrat". Buddy Buddy is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder that stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The film proved to be the last directed by Wilder, who in later years said," If I met all my old pictures in a crowd, personified, there are some that would make me happy and proud, and I would embrace them ... but" Buddy Buddy" I'd try to ignore." . <SEP> It stars Ryan Gosling as Daniel Balint, a Jew who becomes a neo-Nazi. The film is loosely based on the true story of Dan Burros, a member of the American Nazi Party and the New York branch of the United Klans of America. He committed suicide after being revealed as Jewish by a" New York Times" reporter. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden St. George at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival. The Believer is a 2001 American drama film directed by Henry Bean and written by Bean and Mark Jacobson. <SEP> Most famous as a screenwriter, Bean wrote the screenplays for" Internal Affairs Deep CoverVenus Rising The BelieverBasic Instinct 2" and" Noise The Believer" was awarded the dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Festival and the Golden St. George at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival. Henry Bean( born 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, film producer, novelist, and actor. Bean, who is Jewish, also acted in" The Believer", and was a producer on" Deep Cover" and" Noise". He was the director for" The Believer" and" Noise". Bean is also the inspiration for the protagonist of" Noise". He was so tired of constant noise around him and his home in New York City that he decided to take the law into his own hands. If a car alarm was going off and the owner of the vehicle did n't rectify the situation, Bean would break into the car to disable the offending car alarm. Bean was eventually arrested and jailed. He admits to doing it a few more times since. <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. 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. 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. 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> Andrew Ian Murray( born 1 October 1970) is a British writer of children's books. A native of Bromley, South- East London, he is the creator of the Buddy and Elvis picture books with Nicola Slater. Buddy and Elvis is in television production with London's Illuminated Films and Toronto's Comet Entertainment. Andrew's stories and" The Tolkien Quiz Book" have been translated into many languages. The" Ghost Rescue" series was published by Orchard Books in 2009. <SEP> Kim Haugen( born 1958) is a Norwegian actor. He is a son of actors Per Theodor Haugen and Sissel Sellæg and is married to Nadia Hasnaoui. He made his stage debut at Den Nationale Scene in 1982. From 1985 he worked as an actor at Nationaltheatret( The Norwegian National Theatre). In 1992 he played the title role in" Hamlet" at Oslo Nye Teater. He has also appeared for Fjernsynsteatret and participated in several television series, such as" Vestavind" from 1994 to 1995," Far og sønn" from 2002 to 2004, and" Ved kongens bord" from 2005. In 2007, Haugen had a guest appearance in the successful Danish crime series" The Killing". He participated in the films" Buddy" and" Into the White".