Question: Do both films, Circus (1936 Film) and I Am Josh Polonski'S Brother, have the directors who are from the same country?

Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor. He has appeared in both films and television series. <SEP> Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov( original family name was Мормоненко or Mormonenko; 23 January 1903 – 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1973. He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950. Initially associated with Sergei Eisenstein, with whom he worked as a co-director, screenwriter and actor, Aleksandrov became a major director in his own right in the 1930s, when he directed" Jolly Fellows" and a string of other musical comedies starring his wife Lyubov Orlova. Though Aleksandrov remained active until his death, his musicals, amongst the first made in the Soviet Union, remain his most popular films. They rival Ivan Pyryev's films as the most effective and light- hearted showcase ever designed for the Stalin- era USSR. <SEP> Circus( translit. Tsirk) is a 1936 Soviet melodramatic comedy musical film. In his own words, it was conceived as" an eccentric comedy ... a real side splitter." Starring the glamorous and immensely popular Lyubov Orlova( Aleksandrov's wife), the first recognized star of Soviet cinema and a gifted singer, the film contains several songs which instantly became Soviet classics. The most famous is the" Song of the Motherland"( Широка страна моя родная). The film was based on a comedy written by Ilf and Petrov and Valentin Kataev and performed by Moscow music hall," Under the Circus DomeПод куполом ц ирка"), which was seen and liked by Aleksandrov. It was directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Isidor Simkov at the Mosfilm studios. They made the play into the plot, but during the initial film shooting they went to America. Upon return, they disliked the director's interpretation, and after a conflict they abandoned the work, forbade the mention of their names in the credits, and further work on the plot was continued by Isaac Babel. <SEP> In 1993, Nadjari started working for French television as a writer and director. In 1997, he wrote the television screenplay" Le P'tit Bleu", which was directed by Francois Vautier for Arte as part of the TV drama collection" Petits Gangsters". The same year he wrote and directed his first US feature," The Shade"( released in 1999), which starred Richard Edson, Lorie Marino, and Jeff Ware. It was an adaptation of" A Gentle Creature" by Dostoevsky that Nadjari updated, setting it in contemporary New York City. This film was an official selection for" Un Certain Regard" at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival and also appeared at the Deauville Film Festival; the film was awarded in Bergamo Film Festival( Italy). At the end of 1999, Nadjari directed his second feature," I Am Josh Polonski's Brother"( 2001). Starring Richard Edson and Jeff Ware, it was shot on Super 8 mm film in New York. The film opened in Paris on June 6, 2001, and was selected for the Forum for New Cinema at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2001. The same year, Nadjari shot the film" Apartment #5c" in New York; it was released in 2002. The film starred Richard Edson and Tinkerbell, an Israeli actress, and was selected in Cannes' Director's Forthnight. Raphaël Nadjari( born 1971) is a French- Israeli writer and director for film and television. In 2004, Nadjari filmed" Avanim" in Tel Aviv with Asi Levi who has been nominated for Best Actress in the European Film Award. The film received also the Best Film award in Cinéma Tous Ecrans and the Best Director award in the Cannes 2005 France Culture Award, Awards at the Seville Film Festival. In 2006" Tehilim" was set in Jerusalem and stars Michael Moushanov and Limor Goldstein, two prominent figures of Israeli television and theatre; it has been shown at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in the Official Selection and won the Tokyo Filmex Best Film Award the same year. In 2009, his documentary" A History of Israeli Cinema", a two- episode film of 104 minutes each, telling the story of Israeli Cinema since 1933 until today, was screened at the Berlin film festival forum. In 2013," A Strange Course of Events", a film set in Haifa was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Nadjari's 2016 film" Night SongMobile étoile") won the Tobias Spencer Award( in the Between Jewish and Israeli Identity competition) at the Haifa International Film Festival. <SEP> The film is remake of the 1936 film drama of the same name" Sisters of the Gion" by Kenji Mizoguchi. <SEP> It was shot in New York City in 1999 and early 2000, in Super 8 mm 200 ASA. I Am Josh Polonski's Brother is Raphael Nadjari's second feature film. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in the Forum.