Question: Are director of film The Soviet Story and director of film Hell Up in Harlem from the same country?

Written and directed by Larry Cohen, it is a sequel to the film" Black Caesar". Hell Up in Harlem is a 1973 blaxploitation American neo- noir film, starring Fred Williamson and Gloria Hendry. The film's soundtrack was recorded by Edwin Starr and released by Motown Records in January 1974. <SEP> After that, he concentrated mainly on screenwriting, including" Phone Booth"( 2002)," Cellular"( 2004) and" Captivity"( 2007). Early in his career, he was a prolific television writer, creating series such as" BrandedBlue LightCoronet Blue", and" The Invaders". Lawrence George Cohen( July 15, 1936 – March 23, 2019) was an American screenwriter, producer, and director of film and television, best known as a B-movie auteur of horror and science fiction films — often containing police procedural and satirical elements — during the 1970s and 1980s, such as" It's Alive"( 1974)," God Told Me To"( 1976)," It Lives Again"( 1978)," The Stuff"( 1985) and" A Return to Salem's Lot"( 1987). In 2006, Cohen returned to the directing chair for Mick Garris' anthology series" Masters of Horror", directing the episode" Pick Me Up". In 2017, he was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fantasia International Film Festival. <SEP> Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television. <SEP> The film features interviews with western and Russian historians such as Norman Davies and Boris Sokolov, Russian writer Viktor Suvorov, Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, members of the European Parliament and the participants, as well as survivors of Soviet terror. Using these interviews together with historical footage and documents the film argues that there were close philosophical, political and organizational connections between the Nazi and Soviet systems. The Soviet Story is a 2008 documentary film about Soviet Communism and Soviet – German collaboration before 1941 written and directed by Edvīns Šnore and sponsored by the UEN Group in the European Parliament. It highlights the Great Purge as well as the Great Famine, Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact, Katyn massacre, Gestapo –NKVD collaboration, Soviet mass deportations and medical experiments in the GULAG. The documentary goes on to argue that the successor states to Nazi Germany and the USSR differ in the sense that postwar Germany condemns the actions of Nazi Germany while the opinion in contemporary Russia is summarized by the quote of Vladimir Putin:" One needs to acknowledge, that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century". <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> He was elected to a four- year term in the Latvian Saeima in 2014 and 2018. Šnore's family comes from Kuldīga. He went to high school in Riga. During the Revolutions of 1989 he sympathized with the Popular Front of Latvia. Edvīns Šnore( born 21 March 1974, in Saulkrasti) is a Latvian film director and politician. He first studied political science in Norway, and then earned his master's degree at the University of Latvia. In 2013 he completed his Doctoral thesis on the Western European view of Holodomor. Šnore has become known for his 2008 documentary" The Soviet Story". For this film, he was awarded with the Latvian Order of the Three Stars in 2008, and the Estonian Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana in 2009. In 2016 Šnore released another documentary called" The Unknown War: Baltic Resistance" on the guerrilla war in the Baltic states.