Question: Do both I Due Sanculotti and The Quiet American (1958 Film) films have the directors from the same country?

The Quiet American is a 1958 American film and the first film adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling novel of the same name, and the first major American attempt to deal with the geo-politics of Indochina. It was critically well- received, but was not considered a box office success. It was written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and stars Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, and Giorgia Moll. The film flips the novel on its head, turning a cautionary tale about foreign intervention into anticommunist advocacy of American power. In writing the script, Mankiewicz received uncredited input from CIA officer Edward Lansdale, who was often said to be the actual inspiration for the American character —called" Pyle" in the novel but unnamed in this film—played by Murphy. In fact Greene did not meet Landsdale until after completing much of the novel. The more likely inspiration for the character of Pyle was Leo Hochstetter, an American serving as public affairs director for the Economic Aid Mission in Indochina( Logevall 2013). In a Hollywood still recovering from the effects of the blacklisting of suspected Communists, the film stirred up controversy. Greene was furious that his anti-war message was excised from the film, and he disavowed it as a" propaganda film for America. The Quiet American" was remade in 2002, directed by Phillip Noyce, with Brendan Fraser and Michael Caine, in a version more faithful to Greene's novel. <SEP> Giorgio Simonelli( 14 November 1901 – 3 October 1966), was an Italian film director, editor, screenwriter and journalist. <SEP> The Quiet American is a 2002 film adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling novel set in Vietnam," The Quiet American". It was directed by Phillip Noyce and starred Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen. The 2002 version of" The Quiet American", in contrast to the earlier 1958 film version, depicted Greene's original ending and treatment of the principal American character, Pyle. Like the novel, the film illustrates Pyle's moral culpability in arranging terrorist actions aimed at the French colonial government and the Viet Minh. Going beyond Greene's original work, the film used a montage ending with superimposed images of American soldiers from the intervening decades of the Vietnam War. Miramax paid$ 5.5 million for the rights to distribute the film in North America and some other territories, but it shelved the film for a year due to the September 11 attacks and the film's" unpatriotic" message. The film finally received an Oscar qualification release in November 2002 and went on to gross US$ 12.9 million in limited theatrical release in the United States. The film received positive reviews from critics and Michael Caine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. <SEP> Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and won the Oscar back-to-back for both Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay for "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949) and "All About Eve" (1950). Comfortable in a variety of genres and able to elicit career performances from actors and actresses alike, Mankiewicz combined ironic, sophisticated scripts with a precise, sometimes stylized mise en scène. Mankiewicz worked for seventeen years as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and as a producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before getting a chance to direct at Twentieth Century-Fox. Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Over six years he made 11 films for Fox, reaching a peak in 1950 and 1951 when he won consecutive Academy Awards for Screenplay and Direction for both "A Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve", which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six. During his long career in Hollywood, Mankiewicz wrote forty-eight screenplays. He also produced more than twenty films including "The Philadelphia Story" which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941. However, he is best known for the films he directed, twice winning the Academy Award for Best Director. <SEP> I due sanculotti( Italian for" The two sans- culottes") is a 1966 comedy film written and directed by Giorgio Simonelli. <SEP> Story of Pao or Pao's Story( Vietnamese:" Chuyện của Pao") is a 2006 Vietnamese movie. It stars Đỗ Thị Hải Yến who also starred in" The Quiet American", and was directed and written by her husband Ngô Quang Hải. It is set among the Hmong people of North Vietnam, and won four Golden Kite Prizes( the Oscars of Vietnam).