Question: Are the directors of films Over the Brooklyn Bridge and The Tied Up Balloon both from the same country?

Konstantin Kotsev( June 4, 1926 – August 4, 2007) was a Bulgarian stage and film actor. Kotsev was amid the most popular Bulgarian actors from the last decades of 20th century. He is best known for his roles in classic Bulgarian films such as" The Tied Up Balloon"( 1967)," The Swedish Kings"( 1968)," The white room"( 1968)," Naked Conscience"( 1971)," Toplo/ Warmth"( 1978)," Time of Violence"( 1988), as well as his numerous notable performances on the stage. Konstantin Kotsev was decorated with the high titles “ Honoured Artist ” and “ People's Artist ”. <SEP> Over the Brooklyn Bridge is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Menahem Golan, written by Anrold Somkin, and starring Elliott Gould. It has the working title of" My Darling Shiksa", referring to a woman outside of the Jewish faith. <SEP> He was best known for co-owning The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus. Cannon specialized in producing low- to- mid- budget American films, primarily Genre films, during the 1980s after Golan and Globus had achieved significant filmmaking success in their native Israel during the 1970s. Golan produced movies featuring actors such as Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean- Claude Van Damme, and Charles Bronson, and for a period, was known as a producer of comic book- style movies like" Masters of the UniverseCaptain America", and his aborted attempt to bring Spider- Man to the silver screen. Golan also wrote and" polished" numerous film scripts under the pen name Joseph Goldman. At the time of his death, Golan had produced over 200 films, directed 44, and won 8" Violin David Awards" as well as" The Israel Prize" in Cinema. Menahem Golan( May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014) was an Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director. He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign- Language Film for Franco Zeffirelli's" Otello". <SEP> The screenplay, written by Yordan Radichkov is based on his play" Bustle". During the second world war, a barrage balloon appears out of nowhere in the sky above a Bulgarian village. This shakes the imagination of the peasants and causes endless speculations, assumptions and contentions. Almost immediately after the premiere, the film was stopped by the communist authority because of the direct display of the actual reality in the Bulgarian villages as well as for the hints about the origin of many of the communist leaders. The Tied Up Balloon is a Bulgarian satirical comedy- drama film released in 1967, directed by Binka Zhelyazkova, starring Georgi Partsalev, Grigor Vachkov, Georgi Kaloyanchev, Konstantin Kotsev and Georgi Georgiev- Getz. After the restoration of the democracy in 1990, the movie came into a broad view and was recognized as one of the masterpieces of the Bulgarian cinematography from that time. <SEP> She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of the few women worldwide to direct feature films in the 1950s. Binka Zhelyazkova( 15 July 1923 – 31 July 2011), was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. <SEP> James J. Wood was an engineer who contributed to the development of lockmaking, the development of the submarine, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the design of the modern refrigerator. He fabricated the steel cables for the Brooklyn Bridge, the first suspension bridge. These same cables changed the skylines of every major city by making cable- lift elevators possible. He also designed the electrics of the internal combustion engine for John Holland ’s submarine and the first modern refrigerator. Some of his innovations can be found in the A/C generator, electric motors, and transformer. He held over 240 patents. He graduated from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute as a mechanical engineer.