Question: Do both directors of films The Eighth Day of the Week and Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round have the same nationality?

<P0-S0> In his track career at Michigan, Robert Hume won one NCAA championship and four Big Ten Conference championships. <P0-S1> He won the 1944 NCAA outdoor mile run in a dead heat with his brother. <P0-S2> Robert Humiston Hume (September 18, 1922 – February 28, 1999) was the 1941 NCAA champion in the outdoor mile run. <P0-S3> The publicity peaked in June 1944 when "Michigan's famous distance running twins raced to their ninth straight dead-heat victory in the mile run of the 23rd National Collegiate Athletic Association track and field championship meet tonight, finishing hand-in-hand more than 100 yards ahead of the next runner." <P0-S4> The exception occurred at a dual meet in which "a meticulous official ruled that one of the Humes beat the other across the finish line by a couple of inches although they were hand in hand at the wire. <P0-S5> His Big Ten championships were in the indoor and outdoor mile runs in 1944 and 1945, all four of which were shared "dead heat" wins with his brother. <P0-S6> He was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1990. <P0-S7> Robert died in 1999, and Ross followed in 2000. <P0-S8> The brothers were each inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1990. <P0-S9> they’ve been doing that since before their school days .. <P0-S10> Another writer referred to them as the "Dead Heat Kids." <P0-S11> After graduating from Canonsburg High School, the Hume twins enrolled at the University of Michigan to run track under Coach Ken Doherty. <P0-S12> Associated Press columnist Jimmy Jordan dubbed them the "dead heat twins." <P0-S13> The Hume twins' practice of interlocking hands in "dead heat" wins drew national publicity and also controversy. <P0-S14> Robert Hume set the school record for the mile, and Ross set the record in the half mile. <SEP> <P1-S0> Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is a 1966 crime film written and directed by Bernard Girard, starring James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Todd Armstrong, Robert Webber, and Rose Marie. <P1-S1> Harrison Ford also appears (in his uncredited film debut) as a bellhop. <SEP> <P2-S0> Bernard Girard (1918–1997) was an American screenwriter, producer and film director. <SEP> <P3-S0> The Eighth Day of the Week  is a 1958 Austrian drama film directed by Aleksander Ford. <SEP> <P4-S0> Aleksander Ford (born Mosze Lifszyc; 24 November 1908 in Kiev, Russian Empire – 4 April 1980 in Naples, Florida, United States) was a Polish film director; and head of the Polish People's Army Film Crew in the Soviet Union during World War II. <P4-S1> Following the war he was appointed director of the Film Polski company. <P4-S2> In 1948 he was appointed as a professor of the National Film School in Łódź (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa). <P4-S3> Roman Polanski was among his students. <P4-S4> Another of Ford's protégés was the Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. <P4-S5> Following the anti-Semitic purge in the communist party in Poland, in 1968 Ford emigrated to Israel and from there through Germany and Denmark, to the United States. <P4-S6> He committed suicide in 1980 in Naples, Florida. <SEP> <P5-S0> Henry Ross Hume( September 18, 1922 – January 4, 2001) was an American three- time NCAA champion distance runner who was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1990. <P5-S1> the twins like to run together .. they ’ve been doing that since before their school days .. furthermore, they usually finish so far in front that the last 50 yards finds that they are clasping hands and hit the tape together. ” <P5-S2> Ross was named an NCAA All- American three times and was selected as the captain of Michigan ’s track team in 1945. <P5-S3> The brothers were inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1990. <P5-S4> He won the 1944 NCAA outdoor mile run in a dead heat with his brother. <P5-S5> His <P5-S6> The Hume twins ’ practice of interlocking hands in “ dead heat ” wins drew national publicity and also controversy. <P5-S7> Another writer referred to them as the “ Dead Heat Kids. ” <P5-S8> As a result of the Humes ’ practice, the NCAA passed a rule in 1946 stating that athletes would no longer be able to tie in any track meets. <P5-S9> One sports columnist in 1945 noted that the Humes were “ twins in every possible manner, facial resemblance, running style, the clothes they wear, and the courses they are taking. ” <P5-S10> A columnist in Massachusetts wrote: ” As the twins finished their sophomore year at Michigan,[ Coach Ken] Doherty decided to run them in the mile and two mile races together … this proved to be a happy solution … <P5-S11> They were co-winners in every mile event they entered in 1944 except one. <P5-S12> The publicity peaked in June 1944 when “ Michigan's famous distance running twins raced to their ninth straight dead- heat victory in the mile run of the 23rd National Collegiate Athletic Association track and field championship meet tonight, finishing hand- in- hand more than 100 yards ahead of the next runner. ” <P5-S13> He also won Big Ten championships in the two- mile run in the 1944 outdoor and 1945 indoor conference championship meets. <P5-S14> Their best time in a “ dead heat ” mile with hands clasped was 4:14.6 at the Central Collegiate Conference meet in 1944; the time broke a school record of 4:16.4 that had been set by H.L. Carroll 28 years earlier in 1916.