Question: Do both films The Chairman (1964 film) and The Party (1968 film) have the directors from the same country?

Aleksey Aleksandrovich Saltykov( 13 May 1934 – 8 April 1993) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the RSFSR( 1980). <SEP> This film was honored with a Second Prize at All- Union Film Festival in Kiev( 1966). The Chairman is a 1964 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksei Saltykov and starring Mikhail Ulyanov, Nonna Mordyukova and Ivan Lapikov. <SEP> Charles K. Gifford is an American banker and businessman. He is the chairman emeritus of Bank of America having served on its board of directors from 2004 to 2016. <SEP> The film has a very loose structure, and essentially serves as a series of set pieces for Sellers's improvisational comedy talents. Based on a fish- out- of- water premise, the film is about bungling actor from India, Hrundi V. Bakshi( portrayed by Sellers), who accidentally gets invited to a lavish Hollywood dinner party and" makes terrible mistakes based upon ignorance of Western ways". " The Party" is considered a classic comedic cult film. Edwards biographers Peter Lehman and William Luhr said, The Party" may very well be one of the most radically experimental films in Hollywood history; in fact it may be the single most radical film since D. W. Griffith's style came to dominate the American cinema." Film historian Saul Austerlitz wrote," Despite the offensiveness of Sellers's brownface routine," The Party" is one of his very best films ... Taking a page from Tati, this is neorealist comedy, purposefully lacking a director's guiding eye: look here, look there. The screen is crammed full of activity, and the audience's eyes are left to wander where they may." The Party is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet. The protagonist Hrundi Bakshi was influenced by two of Sellers' earlier characters, the Indian doctor Ahmed el Kabir in" The Millionairess"( 1960) and Inspector Clouseau in" The Pink Panther" series. In turn, the character Hrundi Bakshi went on to be influential, inspiring several later popular characters, including Amitabh Bachchan's character Arjun Singh in the 1982 Bollywood blockbuster" Namak Halaal", Rowan Atkinson's character Mr. Bean in the hit 1990s British sitcom of the same name, and Hank Azaria's character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon in the hit American animated sitcom" The Simpsons". <SEP> Romeo and Juliet is a 1964 film directed and written by Riccardo Freda. <SEP> Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon began writing screenplays and radio scripts before turning to producing and directing in television and films. His best- known films include" Breakfast at Tiffany' s Days of Wine and Roses10Victor/ Victoria", and the hugely successful Pink Panther film series with British actor Peter Sellers. Often thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films. William Blake Crump( July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010), better known by his stage name, Blake Edwards, was an American filmmaker. Late in his career, he transitioned to writing, producing, and directing for theater. In 2004, he received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of his writing, directing, and producing an extraordinary body of work for the screen.