Question: Do both The Monkey Talks and Varakatnam films have the directors from the same country?

Charles K. Gifford is an American banker and businessman. He is the chairman emeritus of Bank of America having served on its board of directors from 2004 to 2016. <SEP> He was known for portraying John Wilkes Booth in the silent classic" The Birth of a Nation"( 1915) and for directing such films as" The Big Trail"( 1930), starring John Wayne," High Sierra"( 1941), starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart; and" White Heat"( 1949), starring James Cagney and Edmond O'Brien. He directed his last film in 1964. Raoul A. Walsh( March 11, 1887 December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences( AMPAS) and the brother of the silent screen actor George Walsh. <SEP> Robert Stone is a British- American documentary filmmaker. His work has been screened at dozens of film festivals and televised around the world, notably seven of his films have appeared on PBS's" American Experience" series and four of his films have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival( including Closing Night Film in 2009). <SEP> The film stars Olive Borden, Jacques Lerner, Don Alvarado, Malcolm Waite, Raymond Hitchcock and Ted McNamara. The film was released on February 20, 1927, by Fox Film Corporation. The Monkey Talks is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan and Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier. <SEP> It stars Rama Rao, Savitri and Krishna Kumari, with music composed by T. V. Raju. Varakatnam  is a 1969 Indian Telugu-language drama film, produced by N. Trivikrama Rao under the banner Ramakrishna & NAT Combines and directed by his older brother N. T. Rama Rao. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu. <SEP> He is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of Indian cinema and one of the two legends of Telugu cinema, along wih Akkineni Nageswara Rao. NTR received three National Film Awards for co-producing" Thodu Dongalu"( 1954) and" Seetharama Kalyanam"( 1960) under National Art Theater, Madras, and for directing" Varakatnam"( 1970). NTR has received the erstwhile Rashtrapati Awards for his performance( s) in the" Raju Peda"( 1954) and the" Lava Kusa"( 1963). He garnered the Nandi Award for Best Actor for" Kodalu Diddina Kapuram" in 1970, and the Inaugural Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu in 1972 for" Badi Panthulu". NTR made his debut as an actor in a Telugu social film" Mana Desam", directed by L. V. Prasad in 1949. He gained popularity in the 1950s when he became well known for his portrayals of Hindu deities, especially Krishna and Rama, roles which have made him a" messiah of the masses". He later became known for portraying antagonistic characters and Robin Hood- esque hero characters in films. In total, he starred in 300 films, and has become one of the most prominent figures in the history of Telugu cinema. He was voted" Greatest Indian Actor of All Time" in a CNN- IBN national poll conducted in 2013 on the occasion of the Centenary of Indian Cinema. Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao( 28 May 1923 – 18 January 1996), popularly known as NTR, was an Indian actor, producer, director, editor and politician who served as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh for seven years over three terms. He starred in such films as" Patala Bhairavi"( 1951), which premiered at the first India International Film Festival, held in Mumbai on 24 January 1952," Malliswari"( 1951), premiered at Asia Pacific Film Festival, the enduring classics" Mayabazar"( 1957) and" Nartanasala"( 1963), featured at Afro Asian film festival in Jakarta. All the four films were included in CNN- IBN's list of" Hundred greatest Indian films of all time". He co-produced" Ummadi Kutumbam", nominated by Film Federation of India as one of its entries to the 1968 Moscow Film Festival. Besides Telugu, he has also acted in a few Tamil films. Widely recognised for his portrayal of mythological characters, NTR was one of the leading method actors of Indian cinema, He was referred to in the media as" Viswa Vikhyatha Nata Sarvabhouma". He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1968, recognizing his contribution to Indian cinema. After his career in films, NTR entered politics. He founded the Telugu Desam Party( TDP) in 1982 and served three tumultuous terms as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh between 1983 and 1995. He was known as an advocate of Andhra Pradesh's distinct cultural identity, distinguishing it from the erstwhile Madras State with which it was often associated. At the national level, he was instrumental in the formation of the National Front, a coalition of non-Congress parties which governed India from 1989 until 1990.