Question: Do both films, Seven Years Bad Luck and The Living Corpse (1929 film), have the directors who are from the same country?

It is based on the play" The Living Corpse" by Leo Tolstoy. The Living Corpse is a 1929 German- Soviet silent drama film directed by Fyodor Otsep and starring Vsevolod Pudovkin, Maria Jacobini and Viola Garden. It was made as a co-production between the Russian- based Mezhrabpomfilm and the Communist- backed German company Prometheus Film. <SEP> Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor. He has appeared in both films and television series. <SEP> " For the 1929 film see The Laughing Lady( 1929 film)" The Laughing Lady is a 1946 British Technicolor musical drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth and Francis L. Sullivan. Based on a play by Ingram D'Abbes, its plot follows a young aristocrat who makes a deal with Robespierre during the French Revolution. <SEP> An important early writer on film and film theory, he served as dramaturge for the Mezhrabpomfilm- Rus company and wrote a number of films for directors such as V.I. Pudovkin and Yakov Protazanov before turning to directing in 1926. During the production of" The Living Corpse" in Germany, he decided to remain and worked throughout Europe during the 1930s, enjoying international acclaim for films including" The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov" and" Amok". With the advent of World War II he moved to Hollywood but was unable to establish a career there, directing only one film. His last two films were made in Canada. Fedor Ozep or Fyodor Otsep(" Fyodor Aleksandrovich Otsep"; February 9, 1895 – June 20, 1949) was a Russian- American film director and screenwriter, born in Moscow. He died of a heart attack in Los Angeles in 1949. <SEP> His onscreen persona" Max" was one of the first recognizable recurring characters in film. He has also been cited as the" first international movie star" and" the first film star anywhere". Born in Cavernes, France to Catholic parents, Linder grew up with a passion for the theatre and enrolled in the Conservatoire Bordeaux in 1899. He soon received awards for his performances and continued to pursue a career in the legitimate theatre. He became a contract player with the Bordeaux Théâtre des Arts from 1901 to 1904, performing in plays by Molière, Pierre Corneille and Alfred de Musset. Gabriel- Maximilien Leuvielle( 16 December 18831 November 1925), known professionally as Max Linder, was a French actor, director, screenwriter, producer and comedian of the silent film era. From the summer of 1905, Linder appeared in short comedy films for Pathé, at first usually in supporting roles. His first major film role was in the Georges Méliès- like fantasy film" The Legend of Punching". During the following years, Linder made several hundred short films portraying" Max", a wealthy and dapper man-about- town frequently in hot water because of his penchant for beautiful women and the good life. Starting with" The Skater's Debut" in 1907, the character became one of the first identifiable motion- picture characters who appeared in successive situation comedies. By 1911, Linder was co-directing his own films( with René LePrince) as well as writing the scripts. Linder enlisted at the outbreak of the First World War, and worked at first as a dispatch driver and entertainer. During his service, he was injured several times, and the experiences reportedly had a devastating effect on him both physically and mentally. It was during this time he suffered his first outbreak of chronic depression. <SEP> A man about to be married becomes fearful of bad luck when he breaks a mirror. Seven Years Bad Luck is a 1921 American comedy film written and directed by, and starring Max Linder.