Question: Are both director of film Broadway Melody Of 1940 and director of film A Slave Of Love from the same country?

From 1920 to 1968, Taurog directed 180 films. Norman Rae Taurog( February 23, 1899 – April 7, 1981) was an American film director and screenwriter. At the age of 32, he received the Academy Award for Best Director for" Skippy"( 1931). He is the second youngest person ever to win the award after Damien Chazelle, who won for" La La Land" in 2017. He was later nominated for Best Director for the film" Boys Town"( 1938). He directed some of the best- known actors of the twentieth century, including his nephew Jackie Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Deborah Kerr, Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Elvis Presley. Taurog directed six Martin and Lewis films, and nine Elvis Presley films, more than any other director. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Norman Taurog has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1600 Vine Street. <SEP> Broadway Rhythm( 1944) is a Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer Technicolor musical film. It was produced by Jack Cummings and directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film was originally announced as" Broadway Melody of 1944" to follow MGM's" Broadway Melody" films of 1929, 1936, 1938, and 1940. It was originally slated to star Eleanor Powell and Gene Kelly, but Louis B. Mayer and MGM loaned Kelly out to Columbia to play opposite Rita Hayworth in" Cover Girl"( 1944). The film instead starred George Murphy, who had appeared in" Broadway Melody of 1938" and" Broadway Melody of 1940." Mayer then replaced Powell with Ginny Simms. Other cast members included Charles Winninger, Gloria DeHaven, Lena Horne, Nancy Walker, Eddie" Rochester" Anderson, the Ross Sisters, and Ben Blue, as well as Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra. <SEP> It stars Elena Solovey, Rodion Nakhapetov and Aleksandr Kalyagin. The film is about a silent film actress Olga Voznesenskaya( Elena Solovey), whose films are so admired by the revolutionaries that they risk capture to see her on the screen. The character of Olga was inspired by Vera Kholodnaya. A Slave of Love is a 1976 Soviet romantic comedy- drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and written by Friedrich Gorenstein and Andrey Konchalovskiy. <SEP> Stephen Marro is a film director, writer, producer based in New York. He is best known for being the producer and director of the 2012 feature film, Broadway's Finest. <SEP> Broadway Melody of 1940 is a 1940 MGM film musical starring Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell and George Murphy. The film was the fourth and final entry in MGM's" Broadway Melody" series of films, and is notable for being the only on- screen pairing of Astaire and Powell, who were considered the finest film musical dancers of their time. It was directed by Norman Taurog and features music by Cole Porter, including" Begin the Beguine". <SEP> Mikhalkov is a three- time laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation( 1993, 1995, 1999) and is a Full Cavalier of the Order" For Merit to the Fatherland". Nikita Mikhalkov won the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival( 1991) and nominated for the Academy Award( 1993) in the category" Best Foreign Language Film" for the film" Close to Eden". Winner of the Academy Award( 1995) in the category" Best Foreign Language Film" and the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival( 1994) for the film" Burnt by the Sun". Mikhalkov received the" Special Lion" of the Venice Film Festival( 2007) for his contribution to the cinematography and nominated for the Oscar( 2008) in the category" Best Foreign Language Film" for the film" 12". Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov( born 21 October 1945) is a Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union.