Question: Are the directors of both films Fanchon the Cricket and Persécution from the same country?

It stars Romain Duris, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Jean- Hugues Anglade. It premiered on 5 September 2009 at the 66th Venice International Film Festival where it was nominated for the Golden Lion. Persécution is a 2009 romantic- drama film directed by Patrice Chéreau. <SEP> Fanchon, the Cricket is a 1915 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players Film Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on a novel, "La Petite Fadette" by George Sand. A previous film version of the story was released in 1912 by IMP (later Universal) and directed by Herbert Brenon. "Fanchon, the Cricket" is the only film to feature all three Pickford siblings: Mary (in the lead role), Lottie, and Jack Pickford. It was directed by James Kirkwood and stars Mary Pickford, now working for Adolph Zukor and Daniel Frohman. Milton Berle, Fred, and Adele Astaire are also listed among the cast. Astaire biographer Tim Satchell maintains that the film is the only one to feature the dancing duo of Fred and Adele Astaire. Fred Astaire later said he had no recollection of working on the film. All three roles have yet to be positively confirmed. <SEP> In France he is best known for his work for the theatre, internationally for his films "La Reine Margot" and "Intimacy", and for his staging of the "Jahrhundertring", the centenary "Ring Cycle" at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976. Winner of almost twenty movie awards, including the Cannes Jury Prize and the Golden Berlin Bear, Chéreau served as president of the jury at the 2003 Cannes festival. From 1966, he was artistic director of the "Public-Theatre" in the Parisian suburb of Sartrouville, where in his team were stage designer Richard Peduzzi, costume designer Jacques Schmidt and lighting designer André Diot, with whom he collaborated in many later productions. From 1982, he was director of "his own stage" at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers at Nanterre where he staged plays by Jean Racine, Marivaux and Shakespeare as well as works by Jean Genet, Heiner Müller and Bernard-Marie Koltès. He accepted selected opera productions, such as: the first performance of the three-act version of Alban Berg's "Lulu", completed by Friedrich Cerha, at the Paris Opera in 1979; Berg's "Wozzeck" at the Staatsoper Berlin in 1994; Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" at La Scala in 2007; Janáček's "From the House of the Dead", shown at several festivals and the Metropolitan Opera; and, as his last staging, "Elektra" by Richard Strauss, first performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July 2013. Patrice Chéreau (2 November 1944 – 7 October 2013) was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer. He was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize in 2008. <SEP> James Kirkwood Sr.( February 22, 1875 – August 24, 1963) was an American actor and director. <SEP> Margaret Julia Mitchell( June 2, 1836 – March 22, 1918), popularly known as Maggie Mitchell, was an American actress, born in New York City. She made her speaking debut as Julia in" The Soldier's Daughter" at the Chambers Street Theatre in 1851. The parts in which she earned the greatest fame were Jane Eyre, Mignon, Little Barefoot, and Fanchon the Cricket. Mitchell was a Confederate sympathizer. She was with Jefferson Davis in February 1861. During his inauguration as the Confederacy's President, she performed her signature dance on an American flag. Her southern sympathies and profession made her a natural friend of John Wilkes Booth. <SEP> Robert Michael James( born 2 October 1934) is a former English cricketer who played first- class cricket from 1956 to 1965.