Question: Do both films, Hercules And The Conquest Of Atlantis and Taste Of Cherry, have the directors who are from the same country?

He directed 70 films between 1943 and 1985. Vittorio Cottafavi( 30 January 1914 – 14 December 1998) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. His film" Il diavolo sulle colline" was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. <SEP> Kate O'Flynn is a British actress who has appeared on stage at the National Theatre in productions of" Port" and" A Taste of Honey" and in films including" Up There" and" Mr. Turner". <SEP> Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis is a 1961 film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi and starring Reg Park in his film debut as Ercole/ Hercules. It was originally released in Super Technirama 70. The film is also known as" Hercules Conquers Atlantis" in the United Kingdom, and Hercules and the Captive Women in the United States where the film was not only retitled but edited, rescored and given a title design by Filmation. <SEP> An active film- maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the" Koker" trilogy( 1987– 1994)," Close- Up"( 1990)," The Wind Will Carry Us"( 1999), and" Taste of Cherry"( 1997), which was awarded the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. In later works," Certified Copy"( 2010) and" Like Someone in Love"( 2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively. His films" Where Is the Friend ’s Home? Close- Up", and" The Wind Will Carry Us" were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture. " Close- Up" was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial" Sight& Sound" poll conducted in 2012. Kiarostami had worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and had designed credit titles and publicity material. He was also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. Abbas Kiarostami( 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. He was part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and includes pioneering directors such as Bahram Beyzai, Nasser Taghvai, Ali Hatami, Masoud Kimiai, Dariush Mehrjui, Sohrab Shahid- Saless and Parviz Kimiavi. These filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues. Kiarostami had a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary- style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras. He is also known for his use of Persian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films. Kiarostami's films contain a notable degree of ambiguity, an unusual mixture of simplicity and complexity, and often a mix of fictional and documentary elements. The concepts of change and continuity, in addition to the themes of life and death, play a major role in Kiarostami's works. <SEP> Taste of Cherry(" Ta ’m- e gīlās ...") is a 1997 Iranian drama film written, produced and directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It is a minimalist film about a man who drives through a city suburb, in search of someone who can carry out the task of burying him after he commits suicide. It was awarded the Palme d' Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, which it shared with The Eel. It is regarded as one of the greatest driving films of all time. <SEP> Homayoun Ershadi( sometimes spelled Homayon Ershadi,, born March 25, 1947) is an Iranian actor, best known for his role in the film" Taste of Cherry".