Question: Are director of film Dersu Uzala (1975 Film) and director of film Wog Boy 2: Kings Of Mykonos both from the same country?

Dersu Uzala( alternative U.S. title: The film is based on the 1923 memoir" Dersu Uzala"( which took its name from the native trapper) by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, about his exploration of the Sikhote- Alin region of the Russian Far East over the course of multiple expeditions in the early 20th century. Shot almost entirely outdoors in the Russian Far East wilderness, the film explores the theme of a native of the forests who is fully integrated into his environment, leading a style of life that will inevitably be destroyed by the advance of civilization. It is also about the growth of respect and deep friendship between two men of profoundly different backgrounds, and about the difficulty of coping with the loss of strength and ability that comes with old age. The film won the 1976 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the Golden Prize and the Prix FIPRESCI at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival and a number of other awards. It sold 20.4 million tickets in the Soviet Union and made$ 1.2 million in the US and Canada. Dersu Uzala: The Hunter) is a 1975 Soviet- Japanese co-production film directed by Akira Kurosawa, his first non-Japanese- language film and his first and only 70 mm film. <SEP> Andrikidis went to the Sydney high school Drummoyne Boys High School in the mid-1970s where he made a small film called' Nemesis'. He graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School( AFTRS) in Film Direction in 1981 and was immediately recruited to Crawford Productions where he worked on" The Flying Doctors". He moved to the ABC, where he worked as director and producer on the medical drama series" G.P.", which earned him his first Australian Film Institute Award( AFI Award). This was followed by the groundbreaking police drama series" Wildside". Two of the episodes, which Andrikidis directed, won a total of eight AFI Awards, including Best Direction. This was followed by two series of the comedy/ drama series" Grass Roots", which won seven AFI Awards including Best Direction. Andrikidis has also directed a number of mini-series and telemovies which have also won numerous awards in Australia and overseas. These included the real life dramatisations" My Husband, My Killer"( AFI Award for Best Direction), Heroes' Mountain and the adaptation of a novel by Bryce Courtney called" Jessica". In 2004 and 2005, Andrikidis directed five telemovies in the" BlackJack" series and in 2006 he directed" The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant", which was a co-production between Network Ten and Granada- ITV. In 2007, Andrikidis directed the highly regarded multi-award- winning SBS drama series" East West 101"( 7 AFI Awards including direction) and several episodes of the first series of" Underbelly". ( again an AFI Award for best direction for Peter). In 2008, he directed the UK. TV mini-series" False Witness" and the feature film In 2003 Peter was awarded a Centenary Medal for' Outstanding services to Australian Society and Film Production. He has a reputation for getting excellent performances from his actors( an actor's director) and bringing visual flair to each production he undertakes. He has 23 Awards. He has also set- up director of a number of Australian productions including" Embassy Water RatsHalifax f.p. The Straits, Fat Tony and Co, Janet King, Catching Milat". American productions which have been produced in Australia such as" BeastMaster" and" Farscape" and HBO's" Serangoon Road." Peter Andrikidis is an Australian film and television director and producer]. In 2015, he directed the Australian produced feature film," Alex& Eve". In 2019, he directed an episode of the French- American series, ’’ Reef Break ’ ’. Peter is currently directing" Hide& Seek" for MatchBox, Universal NBC and the Nine Network. <SEP> It is a sequel to the 2000 film" The Wog Boy", starring Nick Giannopoulos, Vince Colosimo and Costas Kilias. It was released in Australia on 20 May 2010 and UK on 7 January 2011. The film received negative reviews. The Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos is a 2010 Australian comedy film directed by Peter Andrikidis. <SEP> He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director during World War II with the popular action film" Sanshiro Sugata"( a.k.a." Judo Saga"). After the war, the critically acclaimed" Drunken Angel"( 1948), in which Kurosawa cast then- unknown actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan. Akira Kurosawa( or or" Kurosawa Akira"; March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. The two men would go on to collaborate on another 15 films. " Rashomon", which premiered in Tokyo, became the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival. The commercial and critical success of that film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers. Kurosawa directed approximately one film per year throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, including a number of highly regarded( and often adapted) films, such as" Ikiru"( 1952)," Seven Samurai"( 1954) and" Yojimbo"( 1961). After the 1960s he became much less prolific; even so, his later work—including his final two epics," Kagemusha"( 1980) and" Ran"( 1985) —continued to win awards, though more often abroad than in Japan. In 1990, he accepted the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. Posthumously, he was named" Asian of the Century" in the" Arts, Literature, and Culture" category by" AsianWeek" magazine and CNN, cited there as being among the five people who most prominently contributed to the improvement of Asia in the 20th century. His career has been honored by many retrospectives, critical studies and biographies in both print and video, and by releases in many consumer media formats. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.