Question: Are director of film Lekhayude Maranam Oru Flashback and director of film The Time Machine (1960 Film) both from the same country?

<P0-S0> Lekhayude Maranam Oru Flashback is a 1983 Malayalam- language film by K. G. George. <P0-S1> The film was controversial because of its alleged exploitation of the highly publicised suicide of actress Shoba. <SEP> <P1-S0> Mahalakshmi Menon, best known by her stagename Shobha( 23 September 1962 – 1 May 1980), was an Indian actress best known for her work in Malayalam and Tamil films. <P1-S1> At the age of 17, she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1979 Tamil film" Pasi". <P1-S2> She also received three Kerala State Film Awards: for Best Actress( 1978), Best Supporting Actress( 1977) and Best Child Artist( 1971); and two Filmfare Awards South for Best Actress in Kannada( 1978) and Tamil( 1979). <P1-S3> Considered one of the finest talents to have emerged in the Indian film world, her promising career was unexpectedly cut short as she committed suicide in 1980, due to unknown reasons. <P1-S4> Her popularity resulted in considerable public scrutiny of the events that led to her death and also various conspiracy theories. <P1-S5> The 1983 Malayalam film" Lekhayude Maranam Oru Flashback" is supposedly based on her life and death. <P1-S6> Born to Malayali parents in Madras, she started her career in the Tamil film industry, making her debut as a child artist in" Thattungal Thirakkappadum"( 1966). <P1-S7> Her first film as the main lead actress was in the 1978 Malayalam film" Uthrada Rathri". <SEP> <P2-S0> Time Machine: <P2-S1> The Journey Back is a combination documentary short- sequel to George Pal's 1960 film" The Time Machine", hosted by" Time Machine" star Rod Taylor and produced and directed by Clyde Lucas. <P2-S2> The film was produced in 1993 for airing on PBS stations. <P2-S3> The film's first section is about the time machine prop from" The Time Machine", not the movie itself, and includes interviews with Academy Award- winner special effect creators Wah Chang and Gene Warren. <P2-S4> In its second section, Michael J. Fox sits in the time machine prop and talks about his experience with the DeLorean sports car time machine from" Back to the Future". <P2-S5> In the film's final section( written by" The Time Machine" screenwriter David Duncan), Rod Taylor, Alan Young, and Whit Bissell reprise their roles from the original 1960 film. <SEP> <P3-S0> Kulakkattil Geevarghese George( born 1946 in Thiruvalla, Travancore) is an Indian film maker and screenwriter who works in the Malayalam Film Industry. <P3-S1> He was the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam cinema, along with Bharathan and P. Padmarajan, in the 1980s, which created groundbreaking films that were widely received while also being critically acclaimed. <P3-S2> Known for his unconventional works, George is considered to be among one of the directors who revolutionized Malayalam cinema in the 1970s and 80s, who also regarded as one of the greatest film makers of Malayalam Cinema of all time. <P3-S3> George is noted for his deep psychological analysis and character study of the human mind in his films. <P3-S4> George made his debut with" Swapnadanam"( 1975) which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam. <P3-S5> His well- known films include" Ulkadal"( 1979)," Mela"( 1980)," Yavanika"( 1982)," Lekhayude Maranam Oru Flashback"( 1983)," Adaminte Vaariyellu"( 1983)," Panchavadi Palam"( 1984)," Irakal"( 1986), and" Mattoral"( 1988). <P3-S6> He is a recipient of 9 Kerala State Film Awards for his various films. <P3-S7> George is the founder and chairman of the Malayalam Cine Technicians Association( MACTA), and continues to be an executive member. <P3-S8> He was the chairman of the Kerala State Film Development Corporation. <SEP> <P4-S0> George Pal( born György Pál Marczincsak; Hungarian:[ ˈmɒrt͡sint͡ʃɒk ˈɟørɟ ˈpɑːl] February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980) was a Hungarian- American animator, film director and producer, principally associated with the fantasy and science- fiction genres. <P4-S1> He became an American citizen after emigrating from Europe. <P4-S2> He was nominated for Academy Awards( in the category Best Short Subjects, Cartoon) for seven consecutive years( 1942 – 1948) and received an honorary award in 1944. <P4-S3> This makes him the second- most nominated Hungarian exile( together with William S. Darling and Ernest Laszlo) after Miklós Rózsa. <SEP> <P5-S0> The Time Machine (also known promotionally as H. G. Wells' The Time Machine) is a 1960 American science fiction film in Metrocolor from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced and directed by George Pal, that stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, and Alan Young. <P5-S1> The film was based on the 1895 novella of the same name by H. G. Wells that was influential on the development of science fiction. <P5-S2> An inventor in Victorian England constructs a machine that enables him to travel into the distant future; once there, he discovers that mankind's descendants have divided into two species, the passive, childlike, and vegetarian Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks, who feed on the Eloi. <P5-S3> George Pal, who had made the first film version of Wells' "The War of the Worlds" (1953), always intended to make a sequel to "The Time Machine", but he died before it could be produced; the end of  functions as a sequel of sorts. <P5-S4> In 1985, elements of this film were incorporated into the documentary "The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal" produced and directed by "Arnold Leibovit". <P5-S5> Gene Warren and Tim Baar received the Academy Award for Best Special Effects for its time-lapse photographic effects, which show the world changing rapidly as the time traveler journeys into the future.