Were directors Kenneth Branagh and Anthony Asquith from the same country?
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Kenneth Branagh
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh ( ; born 10 December 1960) is a Northern Irish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter originally from Belfast.
 Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and in 2015 succeeded Richard Attenborough as its President.
 He has directed or starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including "Henry V" (1989) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director), "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993), "Othello" (1995), "Hamlet" (1996) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), "Love's Labour's Lost" (2000), and "As You Like It" (2006).
Anthony Asquith
Anthony Asquith ( ; 9 November 1902 – 20 February 1968) was a leading English film director.
 He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on "The Winslow Boy" (1948) and "The Browning Version" (1951), among other adaptations.
 His other notable films include "Pygmalion" (1938), "French Without Tears" (1940), "The Way to the Stars" (1945) and a 1952 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest".
Fortunes of War (TV series)
Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels "Fortunes of War".
 It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet.
 Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson met filming the TV series and married in real life.
 Other cast members included Ronald Pickup, Robert Stephens, Alan Bennett, Philip Madoc and Rupert Graves.
 The series stays relatively faithful to the original novels, with no notable departures from their plot. The Young Lovers (1954 film)
The Young Lovers (U.S. Chance Meeting) is a 1954 British Cold War romance drama, directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Odile Versois and David Knight.
 The film was produced by Anthony Havelock-Allan, with cinematography from Jack Asher and screenplay by George Tabori and Robin Estridge.
 At the 1955 British Film Academy Awards, "The Young Lovers" picked up the prizes for "Best Screenplay" and "Most Promising Newcomer to Film" (David Kossoff). The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) is a British film adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde.
 It was directed by Anthony Asquith, who also adapted the screenplay, and was produced by Anthony Asquith, Teddy Baird, and Earl St. John. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is a 2014 American action spy thriller film directed by Kenneth Branagh.
 Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Kenneth Branagh, and Keira Knightley star in leading roles.
 The film features the fictional character Jack Ryan created by author Tom Clancy.
 It is the fifth film in the "Jack Ryan" series but is presented as a reboot that departs from the previous installments.
 Unlike its predecessors, it is not an adaptation of a particular Clancy novel, but rather an original story.
 Pine stars in the title role, becoming the fourth actor to play Ryan, following Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a 1994 horror drama film directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Ian Holm, John Cleese, and Aidan Quinn.
 The picture was produced on a budget of $45 million and is considered the most faithful film adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", despite several differences and additions in plot from the novel. A Cottage on Dartmoor
A Cottage on Dartmoor (a.k.a. Escape from Dartmoor) is a 1929 British silent film, directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Norah Baring and Uno Henning.
 The cameraman was Stanley Rodwell.
 It was the last of Asquith's four silent films, produced exactly on the cusp of the transition from silents to talkies in British cinema, a point which is referenced in the film itself. Tell England (film)
Tell England is a 1931 British drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and Geoffrey Barkas and starring Fay Compton, Tony Bruce and Carl Harbord.
 It is based on the novel "Tell England" by Ernest Raymond which featured two young men joining the army, and taking part in the fighting at Gallipoli.
 Both directors had close memories of Gallipoli, as did Fay Compton's brother, Compton Mackenzie.
 Asquith's father H. H. Asquith had been Prime Minister at the time of the Gallipoli Landings, a fact which drew press attention to the film, while Barkas had personally fought at Suvla Bay in the Gallipoli campaign. Wallander (UK TV series)
Wallander is a British television series adapted from the Swedish novelist Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Kenneth Branagh as the eponymous police inspector.
 It is the first time the "Wallander" novels have been adapted into an English-language production.
 Yellow Bird, a production company formed by Mankell, began negotiations with British companies to produce the adaptations in 2006.
 In 2007, Branagh met with Mankell to discuss playing the role.
 Contracts were signed and work began on the films, adapted from "Sidetracked", "Firewall" and "One Step Behind", in January 2008.
 Emmy-award-winning director Philip Martin was hired as lead director.
 Martin worked with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle to establish a visual style for the series.