Were Robert Benton and Ishmael Bernal from the same country?
Robert Benton Robert Douglas Benton (born September 29, 1932) is an American screenwriter and film director. He won the Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director for "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979) and won a third Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Places in the Heart" (1984).
Jacobo Árbenz Colonel Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (] ; September 14, 1913 – January 27, 1971), nicknamed The Big Blonde (Spanish: "El Chelón" ) or The Swiss (Spanish: "El Suizo" ) for his Swiss origins, was a Guatemalan military officer who was the second democratically elected President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954. He was a major figure in the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution, which represented some of the few years of representative democracy in Guatemalan history. The landmark program of agrarian reform Árbenz enacted as president was enormously influential across Latin America.