Question: Do both directors of films In The Beginning There Was Underwear and Thene Manasulu have the same nationality?

Rao is widely regarded as the intellectual fountain head of Indian drama films. He has garnered seven National Film Awards. Rao made his foray into cinema as Associate to Uday Shankar in the 1948 dance film Kalpana, which was showcased in the" Treasures from National Film Archive of India" at the 39th International Film Festival of India. The 1960 film Nammina Bantu was a work of drama in the broader sense achieved by means of actors who represented mimesis throughout the narrative. The film was simultaneously shot in Tamil as" Pattaliyin Vetri". Upon release both versions received critical acclaim. The Telugu work was screened at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The film also won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu for that year. Adurthi Subba Rao( 16 December 1912 – 1 October 1975) was an Indian film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor and producer known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema, bollywood, and Tamil cinema. The 1964 film Doctor Chakravarthy was adapted by Rao based on Koduri Kousalya Devi's Novel" Chakrabhramanam". The film was the first film to win the Nandi Award, instituted by Government of Andhra Pradesh in 1964. The box office success was awarded the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu for that year. Rao's next work was Mooga Manasulu based on the concept of reincarnation, the first of its kind in Indian cinema in the genre of semi-fiction intended to be more serious in tone with elements that encourage a broader range of moods throughout the narrative. The film was remade in Hindi as" Milan"( 1967) directed by Rao himself, while the Tamil" Praptham"( 1971) was adapted from Rao's work. The Telugu version received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu, and the Filmfare Best Film Award( Telugu) in 1964 and was screened at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In 1968, Rao experimented with courtroom drama and detective fiction in his work Sudigundalu, the film received special mention at the Tashkent and Moscow Film Festivals for its inherent" film with a key" narrative. The film has garnered the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu, The Nandi Award for Best Feature Film, and the Filmfare Award for Best Film- Telugu for that year and was featured at the International Film Festival of India. <SEP> Born in Venice, she is the daughter of the Marxist sociologist and political philosopher Antonio Negri. After directing several short films, Negri made her feature film debut in 1999 with" In the Beginning There Was Underwear", that was screened in the" Forum" section at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. Anna Negri( born 9 December 1964) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. In the following years she worked in television, directing some episodes of the soap opera" Un posto al sole" and several TV movies. In 2008 she directed the mockumentary" Riprendimi", which entered the World Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. In 2009 Feltrinelli released her autobiography," Con un piede impigliato nella storia" With one foot caught in history). <SEP> It was screened in the" Forum" section at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. In the Beginning There Was Underwear is a 1999 Italian romantic comedy film written and directed by Anna Negri. <SEP> Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris. The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors. <SEP> Thene Manasulu is a 1965 Indian Telugu- language romance film directed by Adurthi Subba Rao and written by Mullapudi Venkata Ramana. The film stars Krishna, Rammohan, Sandhya Rani and Sukanya, all in their acting debuts as the leads. It is based on K. R. K. Mohan's novel" Vakrinchina Sarala Rekhalu". In" Thene Manasulu", a young girl( Sukanya) falls in love with a man( Krishna), not realising he is the same man her was marriage was initially fixed with. The film was released on 31 March 1965 and became a commercial success. It was remade by Adurthi in Hindi as" Doli"( 1969). <SEP> Helen Meinardi was an American screenwriter and songwriter who wrote a string of films in the 1930s.