Question: Are the directors of both films Tale of Tales (2015 film) and Eddie and the Cruisers from the same country?

Paul Frederick Kluge( born 1942 in New Jersey) is an American novelist living in Gambier, Ohio. Kluge was raised in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier in 1964 and teaches creative writing there now. He served in the Peace Corps from 1967- 69 in Micronesia. He is the author of several acclaimed novels, including" Eddie and the CruisersBiggest Elvis"( 1997)," A Season for WarMacArthur's Ghost The Day I Die: A Novel of Suspense Gone Tomorrow"( 2008)," A Call From Jersey"( 2010), and his most recent" The Master Blaster"( 2012). Kluge's popular non-fiction work," Alma Mater: A College Homecoming" chronicles Kluge's time as a student and teacher at Kenyon College. This work vividly describes the struggles a liberal arts college faces as times change. " The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia" describes Kluge's return to Micronesia and his observations on how the American presence has affected the islands. Two of Kluge's works have been made into films," Eddie and the Cruisers", based on his novel of the same name, and" Dog Day Afternoon", written with Thomas Moore as a" LIFE" magazine article titled <SEP> Eddie and the Cruisers is a 1983 American film directed by Martin Davidson with the screenplay written by the director and Arlene Davidson, based on the novel by P. F. Kluge. A sequel,, followed in 1989. <SEP> After attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he spent four( five counting tours) years as an actor in Off Broadway shows and regional theater. Martin Davidson( born November 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, television director. His directorial debut was" The Lords of Flatbush" starring Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler and Susan Blakely. He won an ACE award for his film" Long Gone". He is married to residential and restaurant designer Sandy Davidson. <SEP> Tale of Tales is a 2015 European fantasy film directed by Matteo Garrone and starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, and John C. Reilly. An Italian- led production with co-producers in France and the United Kingdom, the film is Garrone's first English- language film. It competed for the Palme d' Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It is a screen adaptation based on collections of tales by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile:" Pentamerone" or" Lo cunto de li cuntiTale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones"), which contains the earliest versions of famous fables like Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. The three tales are" La Cerva Fatata The Enchanted DoeLa Pulce The FleaLa Vecchia Scorticata The Flayed Old Lady"), that have been freely adapted with elements of other tales by Giambattista Basile, as well as a touch of artistic license. <SEP> Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the" Sacher d' Oro", an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film" Silhouette", that became one of the three episodes that are on his first long feature," Terra di Mezzo" in 1997. He won Best Director at the European Film Awards and at the David di Donatello Awards for" Gomorrah". His film" Reality" competed in competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix. His films" Tale of Tales" and" Dogman" were selected to compete for the Palme d' Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and the 2018 Cannes Film Festival respectively. Matteo Garrone( born 15 October 1968) is an Italian filmmaker. <SEP> PAR Yuri Norstein ("Yuriy Borisovich Norshteyn"; born 15 September 1941), is a Soviet and Russian animator best known for his animated shorts, "Hedgehog in the Fog" and "Tale of Tales". Since 1981 he has been working on a feature film called "The Overcoat", based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol of the same name. According to the "Washington PostHe is considered by many to be not just the best animator of his era, but the best of all time".