Question: Are both directors of films Twilight On The Rio Grande and Sound Of The Desert from the same country?

<P0-S0> Michał Waszyński( 29 September 1904 – 20 February 1965) was first a film director in Poland, then in Italy, and later( as Michael Waszynski) a producer of the major American films, mainly in Spain. <P0-S1> Known for his elegance and impeccable manners, he was, by the people who knew him, known as" the prince". <P0-S2> Waszyński was born as Mosze Waks into a Polish Jewish family as Michał Waks in 1904 in Kowel, a small town in Volhynia( now in Ukraine), which at the time was part of Imperial Russia. <P0-S3> As Germany occupied this part of Europe during World War I, he moved first to Warsaw and later to Berlin. <P0-S4> As a young man he worked as an assistant director of the legendary German director F.W. Murnau. <P0-S5> In the 1930s Waszyński became the most prolific film director in Poland, directing 37 of the 147 films made in Poland in that decade, nearly one out of four. <P0-S6> Along with the popular films in Polish directed to a wide local audience, he directed an important film in Yiddish" The Dybbuk", today a monument of the rich cultural life of East European Jewry before the Holocaust. <P0-S7> That city was taken in mid-September 1939 by the Germans, but within weeks, as a result of the Molotov- Ribbentrop pact, the city was given to the Soviet Union and occupied by its army. <P0-S8> Waszyński began a new career as a theater director, first in Białystok and later in Moscow. <P0-S9> After World War II, he stayed in Italy, where he directed a Polish- language feature film about the Battle of Monte Cassino, and then three Italian films. <P0-S10> Later in his career, Waszyński worked as a producer for the major American studios in Italy and( primarily) Spain, credited as" Michael Waszynski". <P0-S11> His credits include" The Quiet American"( 1958)( associate producer)," El Cid"( 1961), and" The Fall of the Roman Empire( film)"( 1964)( executive producer and associate producer). <SEP> <P1-S0> Twilight on the Rio Grande is a 1947 American Western film directed by Frank McDonald, written by Dorrell McGowan and Stuart E. McGowan, and starring Gene Autry, Sterling Holloway, Adele Mara, Bob Steele, Charles Evans and Martin Garralaga. <P1-S1> It was released on April 1, 1947, by Republic Pictures. <SEP> <P2-S0> The Río Álamo, is a stream in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, and is a tributary of the Rio Grande. <P2-S1> It is impounded by Las Blancas Dam, which was completed in 2001 and diverts water to the Marte Gómez Reservoir on the Rio San Juan, another tributary of the Rio Grande. <P2-S2> The Rio Alamo enters the Rio Grande( Rio Bravo del Norte in Mexico) at Rio Grande river kilometer, about downriver from Falcon Dam. <SEP> <P3-S0> Sound of the Desert is a 1932 Polish romantic film adventure directed by Michał Waszyński. <SEP> <P4-S0> Juan Nepomuceno Cortina Goseacochea( May 16, 1824 – October 30, 1894), also known by his nicknames Cheno Cortina, the Red Robber of the Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Robin Hood, was a Mexican rancher, politician, military leader, outlaw and folk hero. <P4-S1> He was an important caudillo, military general and regional leader, who effectively controlled the Mexican state of Tamaulipas as governor. <P4-S2> In borderlands history he is known for leading a paramilitary mounted Mexican Militia in the failed Cortina Wars. <P4-S3> The" Wars" were raids targeting Anglo- American civilians whose settlement Cortina opposed near the several leagues of land granted to his wealthy family on both sides of the Rio Grande. <P4-S4> Anglo families began immigrating to the Lower Rio Grande Valley after the Mexican Army was defeated by the Anglo- Mexican rebels of the Mexican State of Tejas, in the Texas Revolution. <P4-S5> From 1836 to 1848 when Cortina was 12 – 24 years old, parts of the Cortina Grant North of the Rio Grande River was in the disputed territory between the Rio Grande and the Nueces Rivers, claimed by both Mexico and the Republic of Texas. <P4-S6> The situation had a big impact on Cortina and his perspective on government and power. <P4-S7> When the United States defeated Mexico in the Mexican – American War in 1848, Mexico was forced to concede the disputed territory to Texas. <P4-S8> Cortina opposed this concession. <P4-S9> However, Cortina's Mexican militia was easily defeated and forced to flee into Mexico when the Texas Rangers, the United States Army and the local militia of Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Tamaulipas. <P4-S10> According to Robert Elman, author of" Badmen of the West", Cortina was the first" socially motivated border bandit," similar to Catarino Garza and Pancho Villa of later generations. <P4-S11> His followers were known as the" Cortinistas." <SEP> <P5-S0> Frank McDonald( November 9, 1899 Baltimore, Maryland – March 8, 1980 Oxnard, California) was an American film and television director, active from 1935 to 1966. <P5-S1> He directed more than 100 films, including many Westerns starring Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, and numerous TV show episodes. <P5-S2> He is interred at Conejo Mountain Memorial Park in Camarillo, California.