Question: Are director of film A Brief History Of Time (Film) and director of film A Woman In Berlin (Film) from the same country?

His 1988 documentary" The Thin Blue Line" is cited among the best and most influential documentaries ever made. Errol Mark Morris( born February 5, 1948) is an American film director primarily of documentaries examining and investigating, among other things, authorities and eccentrics. In 2003, his documentary film" The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara" won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. <SEP> Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television. <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> The title derives from Hawking's bestselling book" A Brief History of Time", but whereas the book is an explanation of cosmology, the film is a biography of Hawking's life, featuring interviews with family members, colleagues, and even his childhood nanny. The music is by frequent Morris collaborator, Philip Glass. The film project originated with executive producer Gordon Freedman who brought the project to Anglia Television as a co-producer. A Brief History of Time is a 1991 biographical documentary film about the physicist Stephen Hawking, directed by Errol Morris. After acquiring the property, Freedman met with director Steven Spielberg for advice on how to make the project into an important documentary film. Spielberg suggested Errol Morris as director. Freedman's production company partnered with Anglia Television and Tokyo Broadcasting. David Hickman, of Anglia, became the film's producer. <SEP> It is based on the memoir," Eine Frau in Berlin," published anonymously( by Marta Hillers) in 1959 in German, with a new edition in 2003. A Woman in Berlin, known as The Downfall of Berlin Anonyma in the UK, is a 2008 German film directed by Max Färberböck, starring Nina Hoss and Eugeny Sidikhin. ( It was also published in English in 1954 and 2005, and in seven other languages.) The film premiered at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival and was praised for its portrayal of a morally complex and brutal period. <SEP> Max Färberböck( born 22 September 1950) is a German film director and writer. He was born in Brannenburg, Bavaria. He began his career at theaters in Buenos Aires and in Italy. He later studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich and worked for Constantin Film and as an assistant for Peter Zadek at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. After producing several plays at theaters in Hamburg, Heidelberg and Cologne, he began to write and direct episodes for the TV series" Der Fahnder". Later Färberböck produced several TV films, before making his first feature film," Aimée& Jaguar"( 1998). It was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film was also nominated for the Golden Bear at 49th Berlin International Film Festival. He directed" A Woman in Berlin"( 2008), based on the memoir by the same name. A new edition had been published in Germany in 2003, two years after the author's death. This controversial work dealt with the experiences of women in Berlin in the last weeks of the Battle of Berlin and occupation by Soviet Union troops at the end of World War II. The author is reputed to be the late journalist, Marta Hillers, who died in 2001.