Question: Are both directors of films Blind Injustice and Irma La Douce from the same country?

Rex Piano is an American filmmaker. In addition to being a film director and screenwriter, he is also a TV series actor and producer. His works include" Cave in"( 2003)," Faultline"( 2004)," Hope Ranch"( 2002/2004)," Snowman's Pass"( 2004)," Blind Injustice"( 2005)," Found"( 2005)," Captive Hearts"( 2005)," Trapped!"( 2006), and" Elf Bowling the Movie: The Great North Pole Elf Strike"( 2007). <SEP> Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris. The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors. <SEP> He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age of cinema. With" The Apartment", Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film. Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin. After the rise of the Nazi Party, he left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut. He moved to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay for the romantic comedy" Ninotchka", starring Greta Garbo. Wilder established his directorial reputation with an adaption of James M. Cain's" Double Indemnity"( 1944), a film noir. Wilder co-wrote the screenplay with crime novelist Raymond Chandler. Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story" The Lost Weekend"( 1945), about alcoholism. In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed" Sunset Boulevard", as well as" Stalag 17" in 1953. From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made mostly comedies. Among the classics Wilder created in this period are the farces" The Seven Year Itch"( 1955) and" Some Like It Hot"( 1959), and satires such as" The Apartment"( 1960). He directed fourteen different actors in Oscar- nominated performances. Wilder was recognized with the American Film Institute( AFI) Life Achievement Award in 1986. Billy Wilder( born Samuel Wilder, June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian- born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades. In 1988, Wilder was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. <SEP> Blind Injustice is a film that stars Jamie Luner, Josie Davis, James Thomas, Theresa Russell, Thomas Mitchell and K. C. Collins. The story was written by Peter Sullivan and C. Thomas Howell who was also one of the co-producers of the film. It was directed by Rex Piano. <SEP> It is based on the 1956 French stage musical" Irma La Douce" by Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort. Irma la Douce(" Irma the Sweet") is a 1963 American romantic comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, directed by Billy Wilder. <SEP> Colette Renard( 1 November 1924, Ermont – 6 October 2010 Saint- Rémy- lès- Chevreuse) born Colette Lucie Raget, was a French actress and singer. Renard is closely associated with the titular character from the musical" Irma La Douce", a role she played for over a decade. Renard retired from theatre and film in the 1980s, returning in 2004 to play the role of Rachel Levy on" Plus belle la vie". In addition to acting, Renard was a prolific singer, having released 52 albums during her career.