Question: Do both films That Night In Varennes and Den Starkaste have the directors from the same country?

It is based on a novel by Catherine Rihoit. It tells the story of a fictional meeting among Restif de la Bretonne, Giacomo Casanova, Thomas Paine and Sophie de la Borde( a lady in waiting to the queen). That Night in Varennes is a 1982 Italian and French drama film directed by Ettore Scola. They are all traveling together in a coach that is a few hours behind the one that is carrying King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in their flight to Varennes during the French Revolution. The film was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film by the U.S. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. <SEP> Ettore Scola( 10 May 1931 – 19 January 2016) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film" A Special Day" and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. <SEP> Catherine Rihoit( Born in Caen in 1950) is a French writer. " Portrait de Gabriel", her first novel, appeared in 1977. In 1979, she received the Prix des Deux Magots for" Le bal des débutantes". Her 1982 novel" La Nuit de Varennes ou l' Impossible n'est pas français" was made into a film," That Night in Varennes", the same year. Her writing is often on subjects around Roman Catholicism. She has written biographies of Thérèse of Lisieux( Plon, 1992), Brigitte Bardot( 1986), Dalida, and Bernadette Soubirous( 2009). <SEP> Aignan-Aimé Massue (October 1781 – February 1, 1866) was a seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Surrey in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1824 to 1827 as a supporter of the Parti patriote. He was born in Varennes, Province of Quebec, the son of Gaspard Massue, co-seigneur of Varennes, and Josephte Huet Dulude. He entered into business in partnership with his brother-in-law Étienne Duchesnois, later establishing his own business. He acquired four fiefs along the Yamaska River: Saint-Charles, Bonsecours, Bourchemin and Bourg-Marie-Ouest. Massue was married twice: to Celeste Richard in 1811 and to Suzanne-Éléonore Perrault in 1842. Massue resigned his seat in 1827 to allow Louis-Joseph Papineau to be elected in Surrey. He was named a justice of the peace in 1830 and commissioner for the trial of minor causes in 1837. Massue did not support the Lower Canada Rebellion. He died in Varennes at the age of 84. His son Louis Huet Massue and a grandson Joseph-Aimé Massue both served in the House of Commons. His brother Louis Massue served as a member of the Legislative Council for the Province of Canada. <SEP> It was Sjöberg's debut film as a director. Den starkaste is a 1929 silent Swedish drama film directed by Axel Lindblom and Alf Sjöberg. <SEP> Sven Erik Alf Sjöberg( 21 June 1903 – 17 April 1980) was a Swedish theatre and film director. He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice: in 1946 for" Torment"( part of an eleven- way tie), and in 1951 for his film" Miss Julie"( an adaptation of August Strindberg's play which tied with Vittorio De Sica's" Miracle in Milan"). Despite his success with films" Torment"( 1944) and" Miss Julie"( 1951), Sjöberg was foremost a stage director; perhaps the greatest at Dramaten( alongside first Olof Molander and later Ingmar Bergman). He was a First Director of Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre in the years 1930 – 1980, where he staged many remarkable and historic productions. Sjöberg was also a pioneer director of drama for early Swedish TV( his 1955 TV production of" Hamlet" is a national milestone). At the 3rd Guldbagge Awards Sjöberg won the award for Best Director for the film" Ön". Sjöberg died in a car accident on his way to rehearsal at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.