Question: Are the directors of both films Alive And Kicking (1959 Film) and Heartbreak Tango (Film) from the same country?

Heartbreak Tango It was adapted from Argentine writer Manuel Puig's 1969 novel of the same name( English:" Heartbreak Tango"). ( Spanish:" Boquitas pintadas") is a 1974 Argentine drama film, directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. <SEP> It s plot follows three women who grow dissatisfied with their lives in a retirement home and escape in order to search for fresh enjoyment and adventure. They eventually end up running a successful cottage industry sweater business on a remote island offshore of Ireland,( although the film was shot in Scotland). Alive and Kicking is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison, Estelle Winwood and Stanley Holloway with Richard Harris making his film debut. In 1964, the film was released in the US, with the film trailer establishing a tie- in to Stanley Holloway's success in" My Fair Lady". Music by Philip Green< br> <SEP> Olive McFarland( born Brenda McFarland 1929 – 24 August 2011) was a British actress who appeared in film and television dramas from the 1950s to the 1970s. She starred opposite Sean Connery in the 1961 film" The Frightened City." McFarland's television appearances included" The Sweeney The Troubleshooters The Champions" and" Dixon of Dock Green" and she also had a film role in" Alive and Kicking"( 1959). She left acting to restore properties and breed horses. In 1998 following an RSPCA inspection of her farm she was found guilty of neglecting her horses and received a one- month suspended jail sentence. In January 2010 she moved to a care home at Eye, Suffolk, not far from her farm at Creeting St Mary near Needham Market. She was killed when she was hit by a train at a nearby railway crossing the following year. In September 2016, Network Rail were fined £ 4 million at Ipswich Crown Court over health and safety failures in connection with McFarland's death. <SEP> His career in television began in 1953 and he directed for over 30 TV programmes until 1990. He was born in Stoke Newington, London. Cyril S. Frankel( 28 December 1921 – 7 June 2017) was a British film and television director. He directed many episodes of popular British TV shows, such as" The Avengers", and the pilot episodes of the ITC Entertainment shows" Randall and Hopkirk( Deceased)" and" Department S" in 1969. In 1970, he directed" Timelash", an episode of" UFO", which he described as a very interesting script and one of his personal favourites. Frankel also directed many documentaries and feature films, including" Never Take Sweets from a Stranger"( 1960) and" School for Scoundrels"( 1960; taking over from Robert Hamer, who was credited as sole director). One of his films," Man of Africa"( 1953)- the first film to feature a cast made up of relatively unknown black actors- was not released and was lost for some time. A complete copy has since been discovered and has been screened at a number of international film festivals. In terms of documentaries, Frankel supervised some of the films that were broadcast for the BBC arts series" Monitor"( 1958 – 65), among which was the first ballet programme to be filmed and edited to the choreography. Prior to his retirement, he became the ceramics expert for Bonhams auction house. A book," Modern Pots: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and their Contemporaries- The Lisa Sainsbury Collection", was co-authored by Frankel and published in 2000. His memoir," Eye to Eye", was published by Bank House Books in 2009. Frankel died on 7 June 2017 at the age of 95. <SEP> I Want Your Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film. Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews. The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons. The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes. The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword. This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively. <SEP> Born as Leopoldo Torres Nilsson( he later changed his paternal surname from Torres to Torre) was the son of Argentine pioneer film director Leopoldo Torres Ríos, with whom he collaborated between 1939 and 1949. He debuted in 1947 with the short" El muro". His mother was an Argentinian citizen of Swedish descent. His uncle was cinematographer Carlos Torres Ríos( 1898 – 1956). Torre Nilsson's first full- length film," El crimen de Oribe"( 1950), was an adaptation of Adolfo Bioy Casares's novel" El perjurio de la nieve". In 1954 he directed" Días de odio", based on Jorge Luis Borges's short story" Emma Zunz". In 1956 he directed" Graciela", based on Carmen Laforet's novel" Nada", winner of Nadal Literary Prize 1944. He also directed films about icons of Argentine history and culture:" Martín Fierro"( 1968), about the main character of Argentina's national poem;" El Santo de la Espada"( 1970), about General José de San Martín; and( 1971), about Martín Miguel de Güemes. It was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1973 film" Los siete locos" won the Silver Bear at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival. Torre Nilsson was married to writer Beatriz Guido, whose work served as inspiration and who worked alongside him in many of his scripts. He is acknowledged as the first Argentine film director to be critically acclaimed outside the country, making Argentina's film production known in important international festivals. Leopoldo Torre Nilsson( 5 May 1924 – 8 September 1978), also known as Leo Towers and as Babsy, was an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter. He died of cancer in his native Buenos Aires in 1978, at the age of 54. He was buried at the Cementerio Británico in Buenos Aires. A novelized biography of Torre Nilsson," El Gran Babsy", by Mónica Martín, was published in 1993. Another biography," Leopoldo Torre Nilsson: Imagen y Poesía" was published in 2006 by the newspaper" La Nación" and the Aguilar editorial house.