Question: Do both films, The Blue Swords and Back Home (film), have the directors who are from the same country?

<P0-S0> Piers Inigo Haggard OBE( born 18 March 1939) is a British theatre, film and television director, although he has worked mostly in the latter. <P0-S1> Haggard was born in London but grew up on a small farm in Clackmannanshire. <P0-S2> He is the great- great- nephew of H. Rider Haggard, and is the son of the actor, poet and novelist Stephen Haggard who died in 1943. <P0-S3> Haggard began his career as an assistant director at the Royal Court in 1960, then directed at Dundee Rep and Glasgow Citizens before joining the first National Theatre company in 1963 where he co-directed( John Dexter and Bill Gaskill) and assisted Laurence Olivier and Franco Zeffirelli. <P0-S4> In 1965 he moved to BBC Television, directing plays for the anthology drama series" Thirty- Minute Theatre" in the 1960s, later working on the more prestigious anthology shows," CallanPublic Eye, Armchair Theatre"( for ITV) and" Play for Today"( for the BBC). <P0-S5> He directed for a variety of programmes throughout the 1970s, such as" The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes The Love School, Love for Lydia and The Chester Cycle of Mystery Plays( 1976)." <P0-S6> Probably his best known work came later in the decade. <P0-S7> In 1978 he was the director of Dennis Potter's landmark drama serial" Pennies From Heaven" for the BBC, for which he received a BAFTA Award. <P0-S8> Both of these productions are available on DVD, and the" Pennies From Heaven" release includes an audio commentary from Haggard. <P0-S9> In 1982 he also directed" The Ticket of Leave Man" at the National Theatre. <P0-S10> Later television work included" Mrs Reinhardt( 1986)"; a number of US TV Specials with stars such as Liza Minnelli, Cheryl Ladd, and Judge Reinholdt; the Gerry Anderson science- fiction series" Space Precinct"( 1994); and various one- off TV dramas such as" Eskimo Day"( 1996)," Cold Enough For Snow"( 1997), and" The Hunt"( 2001). <P0-S11> He started the Directors ’ and Producers' Rights Society( DPRS, 1987), serving on its board for 20 years, until it transmuted in 2007 into Directors UK, which he still serves as a board member. <P0-S12> Haggard was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire( OBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to film, television, and theatre. <SEP> <P1-S0> Ben Barzman (October 12, 1910 – December 15, 1989) was a Canadian journalist, screenwriter, and novelist, blacklisted during the McCarthy Era and best known for his screenplays for the films "Back to Bataan" (1945), "El Cid" (1961), and "The Blue Max" (1966). <SEP> <P2-S0> Back Home is a 1990 British- American made- for- television drama film based on Michelle Magorian's novel of the same name. <P2-S1> Directed by Piers Haggard, the film starred Hayley Mills, Hayley Carr, Brenda Bruce and Jean Anderson and premiered on Disney Channel on June 7, 1990. <P2-S2> In 2001, a feature film was also made. <SEP> <P3-S0> Into the Blue 2: The Reef is an American action film and a sequel to the 2005 film" Into the Blue". <P3-S1> It was directed by Stephen Herek and had a DVD release on April 21, 2009. <P3-S2> None of the cast from the first film return, it only shares similar themes and situations as" Into the Blue". <SEP> <P4-S0> The Blue Swords is a 1949 East German historical drama film directed by Wolfgang Schleif and starring Hans Quest, Ilse Steppat and Alexander Engel. <P4-S1> It sold more than 3,299,432 tickets. <P4-S2> The film portrays the life of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an alchemist of the early eighteenth century who was held prisoner by the Elector of Saxony in order to discover the secret of gold production. <P4-S3> Failing to accomplish this, which he knows to be impossible, he instead works to develop porcelain. <P4-S4> The title refers to the symbol of Meissen, a pair of crossed swords. <P4-S5> His story had previously been turned into a 1935 film" The King's Prisoner", released during the Nazi era. <P4-S6> The sets were designed by the art directors Karl Schneider and Erich Zander. <P4-S7> It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in East Berlin. <SEP> <P5-S0> Wolfgang Schleif( 14 May 1912 – 21 August 1984) was a German editor, film director and screenwriter. <P5-S1> He studied philosophy, psychology and pedagogy at the University of Leipzig. <P5-S2> In 1934 he passed the State Examination for teachers at the Volksschule. <P5-S3> But then he took classes at the Acting School of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where he was trained in directing. <P5-S4> Schleif began working in film in 1935. <P5-S5> By 1938, he was an assistant director. <P5-S6> In 1939, he became a screenwriter and eventually an editor. <P5-S7> Among his assignments, he was one of the editors of the propaganda films" Jud Süß"( 1940) and" Kolberg"( 1945). <P5-S8> This was followed by the 1949 film biography of Johann Friedrich Böttger," The Blue Swords". <P5-S9> After 17 June 1953, Schleif emigrated to West Germany. <P5-S10> He made several hit movies starring Freddy Quinn, but also war films such as" Rommel ruft Cairo" and crime films such as" Der rote Rausch" and, in the early seventies, back to the Immenhof films," Die Zwillinge von ImmenhofTwins from Immenhof") and" Frühling im ImmenhofSpring in Immenhof"). <P5-S11> He is buried in the Dahlem cemetery in Berlin.