Question: Are the directors of films Easy Money (1983 film) and The Mechanical Man both from the same country?

James Signorelli is an American film director and cinematographer, best known for his work on the TV show" Saturday Night Live". He has been the film segment producer for more than 400 episodes of" Saturday Night Live" since 1976. He has produced many of the commercial parodies for which the show is noted. <SEP> It was produced in 1920, and released in November 1921. It is one of the first science fiction films produced in Italy, and the first film that showed a battle between two robots. The cinematographer was Alberto Chentrens. For many years the original film, which was about 80 minutes in length, was regarded as lost. However, some reels of the Portuguese release version were discovered at the Cinemateca Brasileira in Brazil. The remaining footage amounts to only about 26 minutes( 740 meters). The DVD release by Alpha Video uses the incomplete Brazilian print, with new English intertitles. Film critic Christopher Workman opines that this film had to have influenced Fritz Lang's" Metropolis"( 1927). The Mechanical Man( Italian:" L'uomo meccanico") is a 1921 Italian science fiction film directed by André Deed( who also starred in the film as a comedic character named Saltarello). Director Deeds began his acting career in France, then moved to Italy where he continued his slapstick style of acting. After finishing" The Mechanical Man", he moved back to France where his acting career slightly declined in popularity. He did however direct around 40 films and acted in over 200, before he died in 1940. <SEP> Charles Leonard Gehringer( May 11, 1903 – January 21, 1993), nicknamed" The Mechanical Man", was an American professional baseball second baseman, coach, general manager, and team vice president, who played in Major League Baseball( MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, for 19 seasons. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, in 1949. <SEP> Easy Money is a Swedish thriller film directed by Daniel Espinosa that was released on 15 January 2010. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Jens Lapidus. Joel Kinnaman stars in the lead role of Johan" JW" Westlund, a rather poor man living a double life in the upper class areas of Stockholm. After meeting a wealthy girl, he is enticed into the world of organized crime and begins to sell cocaine to afford his expensive lifestyle. " Easy Money" was well received by critics and was a hit at the box office. Two sequels to the film have been filmed- the first(" Snabba Cash II") was released in 2012, while the third premiered in Swedish cinemas October 2013. Warner Bros. holds the rights to an American remake of" Easy Money", which is set to star Zac Efron. <SEP> André Deed was one of the first named actors in cinema, and his film series based around Foolshead were a global success. Henri André Chapais, known as André Deed( 22 February 1879 – 4 October 1940), was a French actor and director, best known for his Foolshead comedies, produced in the 1900s and 1910s. <SEP> Easy Money is a 1983 American comedy film starring Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Candice Azzara, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The original music score was composed by Laurence Rosenthal. The theme song" Easy Money" is performed by Billy Joel and was featured on his album" An Innocent Man". It was directed by James Signorelli and written by Dangerfield, Michael Endler, P. J. O'Rourke and Dennis Blair.