Question: Do both films, Circus (1936 Film) and I Am Josh Polonski'S Brother, have the directors who are from the same country?

<P0-S0> Circus( translit. Tsirk) is a 1936 Soviet melodramatic comedy musical film. <P0-S1> It was directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Isidor Simkov at the Mosfilm studios. <P0-S2> In his own words, it was conceived as" an eccentric comedy ... a real side splitter." <P0-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. <P0-S4> The most famous is the" Song of the Motherland"( Широка страна моя родная). <P0-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. <P0-S6> They made the play into the plot, but during the initial film shooting they went to America. <P0-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> <P1-S0> I Am Josh Polonski's Brother is Raphael Nadjari's second feature film. <P1-S1> It was shot in New York City in 1999 and early 2000, in Super 8 mm 200 ASA. <P1-S2> The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in the Forum. <SEP> <P2-S0> Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor. <P2-S1> He has appeared in both films and television series. <SEP> <P3-S0> Raphaël Nadjari( born 1971) is a French- Israeli writer and director for film and television. <P3-S1> In 1993, Nadjari started working for French television as a writer and director. <P3-S2> In 1997, he wrote the television screenplay" Le P'tit Bleu", which was directed by Francois Vautier for Arte as part of the TV drama collection" Petits Gangsters". <P3-S3> The same year he wrote and directed his first US feature," The Shade"( released in 1999), which starred Richard Edson, Lorie Marino, and Jeff Ware. <P3-S4> This film was an official selection for" Un Certain Regard" at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival and also appeared at the Deauville Film Festival; the film was awarded in Bergamo Film Festival( Italy). <P3-S5> At the end of 1999, Nadjari directed his second feature," I Am Josh Polonski's Brother"( 2001). <P3-S6> Starring Richard Edson and Jeff Ware, it was shot on Super 8 mm film in New York. <P3-S7> The film opened in Paris on June 6, 2001, and was selected for the Forum for New Cinema at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2001. <P3-S8> In 2004, Nadjari filmed" Avanim" in Tel Aviv with Asi Levi who has been nominated for Best Actress in the European Film Award. <P3-S9> The film received also the Best Film award in Cinéma Tous Ecrans and the Best Director award in the Cannes 2005 France Culture Award, Awards at the Seville Film Festival. <P3-S10> In 2009, his documentary" A History of Israeli Cinema", a two- episode film of 104 minutes each, telling the story of Israeli Cinema since 1933 until today, was screened at the Berlin film festival forum. <P3-S11> Nadjari's 2016 film" Night SongMobile étoile") won the Tobias Spencer Award( in the Between Jewish and Israeli Identity competition) at the Haifa International Film Festival. <SEP> <P4-S0> Grigori Vasilyevich <P4-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. <P4-S2> He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950. <P4-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. <P4-S4> Though Aleksandrov remained active until his death, his musicals, amongst the first made in the Soviet Union, remain his most popular films. <P4-S5> They rival Ivan Pyryev's films as the most effective and light- hearted showcase ever designed for the Stalin- era USSR. <SEP> <P5-S0> The film is remake of the 1936 film drama of the same name" Sisters of the Gion" by Kenji Mizoguchi.