Question: Are the directors of both films Chocolat (1988 Film) and The Cynic, The Rat And The Fist from the same country?

The film was described by Italian film critic and historian Roberto Curti as" a sequel of sorts" Lenzi's 1976" The Tough Ones", with Maurizio Merli reprising the role of Commissioner Leonardo Tanzi. The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist is an Italian" poliziotteschi" film directed in 1977 by Umberto Lenzi. The title of the movie inspired the book" Cinici infami e violenti"( 2005), written by Daniele Magni and Silvio Giobbio, a book guide about" Poliziotteschi". <SEP> Gregory Lamberson( born April 19, 1964) is an American filmmaker and author. He is known for writing novels such as" Johnny Gruesome" and the series" The Jake Helman Files", and for directing the 1988 film" Slime City". He is also one of the directors of the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival. <SEP> Marc and Aimée Dalens( François Cluzet and Giulia Boschi) are the parents of France( Cécile Ducasse), a young girl who befriends Protée( Isaach de Bankolé), a Cameroon native who is the family's household servant. The film was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. Chocolat is a 1988 film directed by Claire Denis, about a French family that lives in colonial Cameroon. <SEP> Her feature film" Beau Travail"( 1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s. Other acclaimed works include" Trouble Every Day"( 2001)," 35 Shots of Rum"( 2008), and" White Material"( 2009). Her work has dealt with themes of colonial and post-colonial West Africa, as well as issues in modern France, and continues to influence European cinematic identity. Claire Denis( born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and writer. <SEP> A fan of film since young age, Lenzi studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and made his first film in 1958 which went unreleased, while his official debut happened in 1961 with "Queen of the Seas". Lenzi's films of the 1960s followed popular trends of the era, which led to him directing several spy and erotic thriller films. Umberto Lenzi (6 August 1931 – 19 October 2017) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and novelist. He followed in suit in the 1970s making "giallo" films, crime films and making the first Italian cannibal film with "Man from the Deep River". He continued making films up until the 1990s and later worked as a novelist writing a series of murder mysteries. <SEP> Tomas Milian( born Tomás Quintín Rodriguez- Varona Milian Salinas De La Fé y Alvarez De La Campa; 3 March 1933 – 22 March 2017) was a Cuban American actor and singer with Italian citizenship, known for the emotional intensity and humour he brought to roles in European genre films. A student of Lee Strasberg, Milian studied method acting at the Actors Studio in New York City. In Italy, he was discovered by director Mauro Bolognini and appeared in supporting roles in several drama films during the late- 1950s and early- 1960s, including as Raphael in Carol Reed's" The Agony and the Ecstasy"( 1965). Throughout the late- 1960s and early- 1970s, Milian established himself as a dynamic leading actor in a series of Spaghetti Western films, most notably" The Big Gundown"( 1966) and" Django Kill ... If You Live, Shoot!"( 1967). Following a decline in the popularity of Spaghetti Westerns, Milian transitioned to roles in" poliziottesco" films. After receiving acclaim for his performance as a psychotic killer in" Almost Human"( 1974), he made appearances in" Emergency Squad"( 1974)," The Tough Ones"( 1976) and" The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist"( 1977). After returning to the United States in 1985, Milian continued to perform supporting roles in film productions, including" JFK"( 1991)," Amistad"( 1997)," Traffic"( 2000) and" The Lost City"( 2005). Milian died in 2017.