Question: Do both films Il Mulatto and Small Time Crooks have the directors from the same country?

Romolo Valli (7 February 1925 – 1 February 1980) was an Italian actor. Valli was born in Reggio Emilia. He was one of the best known Italian actors from the 1950s to his death. He worked for both the stage and the silver screen. Among the directors he collaborated with were Vittorio De Sica, Sergio Leone, Roman Polanski, Roger Vadim, and Luchino Visconti, who cast Valli in three feature films ("Il GattopardoMorte a VeneziaGruppo di famiglia in un interno") and the episode "Il lavoro" of "Boccaccio '70". Valli died in a car accident. <SEP> Small Time Crooks is a 2000 American crime- comedy film. It stars Allen, Hugh Grant, Elaine May and Tracey Ullman. " Small Time Crooks" received positive reviews from critics. Ullman also received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, and May won the Best Supporting Actress citation at the National Society of Film Critics Awards. Written and directed by Woody Allen, the film's plot has some similarities to that of the 1942 comedy" Larceny, Inc.". <SEP> Il Mulatto is a 1950 Italian drama film directed by Francesco De Robertis. <SEP> He began his career as a comedy writer in the 1950s, writing jokes and scripts for television and publishing several books of short humor pieces. In the early 1960s, he performed as a stand-up comedian, emphasizing monologues rather than traditional jokes, where he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality. Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935), better known as Woody Allen, is an American director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. In 2004 Comedy Central ranked Allen fourth on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians, while a UK survey ranked Allen the third-greatest comedian. By the mid-1960s Allen was writing and directing films, first specializing in slapstick comedies before moving into dramatic material influenced by European art cinema during the 1970s, and alternating between comedies and dramas to the present. He is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late 1970s. Allen often stars in his films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup. Some of the best-known of his over 50 films are "Annie Hall" (1977), "Manhattan" (1979), "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986), "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989), and "Midnight in Paris" (2011). In 2007 he said "Stardust Memories" (1980), "The Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985), and "Match Point" (2005) were his best films. Critic Roger Ebert described Allen as "a treasure of the cinema". Allen has received many accolades and honors throughout his career. He has won four Academy Awards: three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director. He also garnered nine British Academy Film Awards. His screenplay for "Annie Hall" was named the funniest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America in its list of the "101 Funniest Screenplays". In 2011 PBS televised the film biography "Woody Allen: A Documentary" on its series "American Masters". <SEP> Francesco De Robertis( 1902–1959) was an Italian screenwriter, film editor and director. His semi-documentary film- making style of the early 1940s has been credited as an influence on the development of Italian neorealism. <SEP> Small Time is a 1996 film directed Shane Meadows. His first feature film, it was written, produced and directed by Meadows.