Question: Do both films Opera Ball (1956 Film) and Picnic At Hanging Rock (Film) have the directors from the same country?

He was a leading figure in the Australian New Wave cinema movement( 1970 – 1990), with films such as the mystery drama" Picnic at Hanging Rock"( 1975), the supernatural thriller" The Last Wave"( 1977) and the historical drama" Gallipoli"( 1981). The climax of Weir's early career was the$ 6 million multi-national production" The Year of Living Dangerously"( 1983). Peter Lindsay Weir, AM( born 21 August 1944) is an Australian film director. After the success of" The Year of Living Dangerously", Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films covering most genres—many of them major box office hits —including Academy Award- nominated films such as the thriller" Witness"( 1985), the drama" Dead Poets Society"( 1989), the romantic comedy" Green Card"( 1990), the social science fiction comedy- drama" The Truman Show"( 1998) and the financially- disappointing epic historical drama( 2003). For his work on these five films, Weir personally accrued six Academy Award nominations as either a director, writer or producer. Since 2003, Weir's productivity has declined, having directed only one subsequent feature, the critically acclaimed box- office flop" The Way Back"( 2010). <SEP> He wrote for 93 films between 1913 and 1962. He also directed 29 films between 1915 and 1962. He wrote and directed the Sissi trilogy - "Sissi" (1955), "Sissi - The Young Empress" (1956) and "Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin" (1957). The films were based on the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. He was the brother of Hubert Marischka. He was named for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1946, for "A Song to Remember" (1945). Ernst Marischka (2 January 1893 – 12 May 1963) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director. <SEP> Samara Weaving( born 23 February 1992) is an Australian actress and model. She began her acting career on the television series" Out of the Blue"( 2008) and came to further prominence with her portrayal of Indi Walker in the Australian soap opera" Home and Away"( 2009 – 2013). Weaving has since appeared in starring roles in the series" SMILF"( 2017–2019) and" Picnic at Hanging Rock"( 2018) and the films" The Babysitter"( 2017)," Mayhem"( 2017), and" Ready or Not"( 2019). <SEP> Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery drama film which was produced by Hal and Jim McElroy, directed by Peter Weir, and starred Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray and Jacki Weaver. It was adapted by Cliff Green from the 1967 novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay, who was deliberately ambiguous about whether the events really took place, although the story is in fact entirely fictitious. The plot involves the disappearance of several schoolgirls and their teacher during a picnic at Hanging Rock, Victoria, on Valentine's Day in 1900, and the subsequent effect on the local community. " Picnic at Hanging Rock" was a commercial and critical success, and helped draw international attention to the then- emerging Australian New Wave of cinema. <SEP> Margaret Cardin( 1906 – 1998), more commonly known as Maggie Cardin, was an Australian film editor and negative cutter, who worked on films such as" Picnic at Hanging Rock"( 1975), the original" Mad Max"( 1979) and the sequel,( 1981) <SEP> Based on the 1898 operetta" Der Opernball", it is part of the operetta film tradition. A previous film version had been made in 1939. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Jüptner- Jonstorff. Opera Ball( German: Opernball) is a 1956 Austrian musical comedy film directed by Ernst Marischka and starring Johannes Heesters, Hertha Feiler and Josef Meinrad. It was shot using Agfacolor.