Question: Are both directors of films Mackenna's Gold and Circus (1936 film) from the same country?

<P0-S0> Grigori Vasilyevich <P0-S1> Aleksandrov or Alexandrov( original family name was Мормоненко or Mormonenko; 23 January 1903 – 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1973. <P0-S2> He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950. <P0-S3> Initially associated with Sergei Eisenstein, with whom he worked as a co-director, screenwriter and actor, Aleksandrov became a major director in his own right in the 1930s, when he directed" Jolly Fellows" and a string of other musical comedies starring his wife Lyubov Orlova. <P0-S4> Though Aleksandrov remained active until his death, his musicals, amongst the first made in the Soviet Union, remain his most popular films. <P0-S5> They rival Ivan Pyryev's films as the most effective and light- hearted showcase ever designed for the Stalin- era USSR. <SEP> <P1-S0> Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American western film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring an ensemble cast featuring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Ted Cassidy, Camilla Sparv and Julie Newmar in lead roles. <P1-S1> It was photographed in Super Panavision 70 and Technicolor by Joseph MacDonald, with original music by Quincy Jones. <P1-S2> " Mackenna's Gold" is based on the novel of the same name by Heck Allen using the pen name Will Henry, telling the story of how the lure of gold corrupts a diverse group of people. <P1-S3> The novel was loosely based on the legend of the Lost Adams Diggings, crediting the Frank Dobie account of the legend(" Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver") in the author's note. <P1-S4> The film was a box office failure in North America, but went on to become a major overseas success, in regions such as the Soviet Union, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. <SEP> <P2-S0> The film is remake of the 1936 film drama of the same name" Sisters of the Gion" by Kenji Mizoguchi. <SEP> <P3-S0> Denyse Alexander( born 28 June 1931) is a British stage, film and television actress. <P3-S1> She was married to the film and television director Jack Gold from 1957 until his death in August 2015. <SEP> <P4-S0> Circus( translit. Tsirk) is a 1936 Soviet melodramatic comedy musical film. <P4-S1> It was directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Isidor Simkov at the Mosfilm studios. <P4-S2> In his own words, it was conceived as" an eccentric comedy ... a real side splitter." <P4-S3> Starring the glamorous and immensely popular Lyubov Orlova( Aleksandrov's wife), the first recognized star of Soviet cinema and a gifted singer, the film contains several songs which instantly became Soviet classics. <P4-S4> The most famous is the" Song of the Motherland"( Широка страна моя родная). <P4-S5> The film was based on a comedy written by Ilf and Petrov and Valentin Kataev and performed by Moscow music hall," Under the Circus DomeПод куполом ц ирка"), which was seen and liked by Aleksandrov. <P4-S6> They made the play into the plot, but during the initial film shooting they went to America. <P4-S7> Upon return, they disliked the director's interpretation, and after a conflict they abandoned the work, forbade the mention of their names in the credits, and further work on the plot was continued by Isaac Babel. <SEP> <P5-S0> John Lee Thompson (1 August 1914 – 30 August 2002) was a British film director, active in London and Hollywood, best known for such movies as "Ice Cold in AlexCape Fear" and "The Guns of Navarone".