Question: Do both The Chekist and Love In The Afternoon (1957 Film) films have the directors from the same country?

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. 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. 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. In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. <SEP> Adrian Love( born 3 August 1944 in York – 10 March 1999) was a British radio presenter, remembered for his" Love in the Afternoon" programme on BBC Radio 2. He was the son of musician Geoff Love. <SEP> It tells the story of a bloody work and downfall of a Soviet Cheka security official involved in mass executions during the Russian Civil War. The Chekist is a 1992 Russian- French dystopian drama film directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin, based on a 1923 short story by Vladimir Zazubrin. <SEP> Love in the Afternoon( original title:" L'Amour l'après- midi" and released in North America as" Chloe in the Afternoon") is a 1972 film by Éric Rohmer. It is the sixth and final movie in Rohmer's series. An English- language remake starring Chris Rock, titled" I Think I Love My Wife", was released in 2007. Neither film is a remake or derivative of" Love in the Afternoon", a 1957 romantic comedy directed by Billy Wilder. <SEP> The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the 1920 Claude Anet novel" Ariane, jeune fille russeAriane, Young Russian Girl"), which had been filmed as" Scampolo"( 1928) and" Scampolo, a Child of the Street"( 1932), the latter with a script co-written by Wilder. Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder which stars Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper. Wilder was inspired by a 1931 German adaptation of the novel," Ariane", directed by Paul Czinner. <SEP> Alexander Vladimirovich Rogozhkin( born October 3, 1949) is a prolific Russian film director.