Question: Which film whose director was born first, Simon Of The Desert or The Great Gambler?

Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford. <SEP> The Great Gambler is a 1979 Indian action thriller film, known in Hindi as" Sabse Bada Zuari", starring Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Neetu Singh and Prem Chopra. It was directed by Shakti Samanta. Initially, it did poorly at the box office, but it did decent business in Mumbai and has since attained cult status. This film is a thriller, and its story is based on international gangsters, spies and secret agents of different countries' intelligence agencies and their undercover operations. This film had high production costs with a significant portions of it being shot in international locations including Cairo, Lisbon, Venice and Rome, and in India many scenes were shot in Goa. The Great Gambler has been widely appreciated for its action, direction and cinematography. <SEP> Simon of the Desert is a 1965 film directed by Luis Buñuel. It is loosely based on the story of the ascetic 5 th- century Syrian saint Simeon Stylites, who lived for 39 years on top of a column. " Simon of the Desert" is the third( after" Viridiana" and" The Exterminating Angel") of three movies that Buñuel had made starring Claudio Brook and Silvia Pinal and produced by her then- husband Gustavo Alatriste. Today it is generally acclaimed by film critics. <SEP> Passion in the Desert, or Simoom: A Passion in the Desert, is a 1997 film from director Lavinia Currier based on the short story" A Passion in the Desert" by Honoré de Balzac. The film follows the ventures of a young French officer named Augustin Robert( Ben Daniels) in late 18th- century Egypt during Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign to capture the country. <SEP> Shakti Samanta( 13 January 1926 – 9 April 2009) was an Indian film director and producer, who founded Shakti Films in 1957, which is most known for films such as" Howrah BridgeChina TownKashmir Ki KaliAn Evening in ParisAradhanaKati Patang", and" Amar Prem". He received Filmfare Awards for Best Film for" Aradhana"( 1969)," Anuraag"( 1973) and" Amanush", which was also made in Bengali, a language in which he made six films, including an Indo- Bangladesh joint production in 1984. <SEP> When Buñuel died at age 83, his obituary in" The New York Times" called him" an iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary who was a leader of avant- garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later". His first picture," Un Chien Andalou" —made in the silent era—was called" the most famous short film ever made" by critic Roger Ebert, and his last film," That Obscure Object of Desire" —made 48 years later—won him Best Director awards from the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics. Writer Octavio Paz called Buñuel's work" the marriage of the film image to the poetic image, creating a new reality ... scandalous and subversive". Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel created films from the 1920s through the 1970s. His work spans two continents, three languages, and an array of genres, including experimental film, documentary, melodrama, satire, musical, erotica, comedy, romance, costume dramas, fantasy, crime film, adventure, and western. Luis Buñuel Portolés( 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish- born Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico and Spain. Despite this variety, filmmaker John Huston believed that, regardless of genre, a Buñuel film is so distinctive as to be instantly recognizable, or, as Ingmar Bergman put it," Buñuel nearly always made Buñuel films". Seven of Buñuel's films are included in" Sight& Sound"< nowiki>'</ nowiki >s 2012 critics' poll of the top 250 films of all time. Fifteen of his films are included in the" They Shoot Pictures, Do n't They?" list of the 1,000 greatest films of all time, for which he ranks second only to Jean- Luc Godard, with sixteen, and he ranks number 13 on their list of the top 250 directors.