Which director was born first, Lothar Mendes or Baz Luhrmann?
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Lothar Mendes Lothar Mendes (19 May 1894 – 25 February 1974) was a German-born screenwriter and film director. who began his career as an actor in Vienna and Berlin in Max Reinhardt's famous troupe. He went to America in the early 1920s and there he remained until 1933, directing more than a dozen features, mostly frothy comedies, while under contract to Paramount. His films included the last silent film made in America, "The Four Feathers" (1929) and the murder mystery "Payment Deferred" (1933) starring British expatriate Charles Laughton.
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Baz Luhrmann Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann ( ; born 17 September 1962) is an Australian film director, screenwriter and producer best known for "Red Curtain Trilogy", comprising his romantic comedy film "Strictly Ballroom" (1992), the romantic drama "Romeo + Juliet" (1996), and the pastiche-jukebox musical "Moulin Rouge!" (2001). His 2008 film "Australia" is an epic historical romantic drama film starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. His 2013 drama "The Great Gatsby", based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name, stars Leonardo DiCaprio (whom he also used in "Romeo + Juliet") and Tobey Maguire.
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Klaus Maria Brandauer Klaus Maria Brandauer (] ; born 22 June 1943) is an Austrian actor, film director, and professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. He is known internationally for his roles in "Mephisto" (1981), "Never Say Never Again" (1983) and "Out of Africa" (1985).
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Laurent Bouhnik Laurent Bouhnik (French pronunciation: lɔʁɑ̃ bunik; born April 7, 1961 in Paris, France) is a French director, writer and actor, known for "Desire" (2011), "L'Invité" (2007), "24 heures de la vie d'une femme"/"24 Hours in the Life of a Woman" (2002), "Zonzon" (1998), "Sélect Hôtel" (1996) and "Troubles ou la Journée d'une Femme Ordinaire" (1994). He began his career in the comic strip and illustration business. From 1988 to 1992, he carried out various technical image and editing jobs within the production company he established. The award-winning "Madeleine" (1999) was the first step in an ambitious project to direct one film per year between 1999–2009, recounting the turn of the century in an interweaving narrative pattern. He teaches directing and script-writing at La Fémis (Paris). He has appreared in cameo roles in "Vivante" (2001), "Sur un air d'autoroute" (1999) and "Paddy" (1998).
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Laura Weissbecker Laura Weissbecker (born October 3, 1984) is an international multilingual French actress who won the Chinese Huading award for "best new actress" in 2013 for her role in Jackie Chan's "CZ12". She has worked in France, Germany, USA and China, with directors such as Jackie Chan, Cedric Klapisch, Elie Chouraqui, Mark Romanek and Tonie Marshall. Weissbecker was handpicked by Jackie Chan for one of the leading roles in the film "Chinese Zodiac 12", starring and directed by Jackie Chan. The film was a huge commercial success in Asia, in particular in mainland China where it is listed as amongst the top 5 biggest box-office hits for a Chinese movie in the country's history.
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Quax in Africa Quax in Africa (German: Quax in Afrika) is a 1947 German comedy adventure film directed by  Helmut Weiss and starring Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler and Lothar Firmans. It is a sequel to the 1941 film " Quax the Crash Pilot". Although the female lead from the previous film Karin Himboldt appears again, the principal romantic interest is now played by Rühmann's real-life wife Hertha Feiler.
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Invisible Opponent Invisible Opponent (German: Unsichtbare Gegner) is a 1933 German-Austrian drama film directed by Rudolph Cartier and starring Gerda Maurus, Paul Hartmann and Oskar Homolka. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erwin Scharf. The plot revolves around an oil swindle in a South American country. The film was made in Vienna. The critics were not generally impressed with the film, the "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" described it as "unbelievable and unbelievably awful picture".
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José Bohr José Bohr (3 September 1901 – 29 May 1994) was a Chilean film director, producer, actor and screenwriter. He directed 35 films between 1919 and 1969.
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Joseph Behar Joseph Behar (born September 30, 1926) (also credited as Joe Behar) is a DGA Award-winning American television director. He is known for directing the game show "Let's Make a Deal", as well as the serials "The Greatest Gift" (producer and director), "First Love", "From These Roots", "Days of Our Lives", and "General Hospital".
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Philipp Lothar Mayring Philipp Lothar Mayring (19 September 1879 – 6 July 1948) was a German screenwriter, actor and film director. He worked on the screenplays for over seventy films, and directed another twelve.
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Rod Lurie Rod Lurie (born May 15, 1962) is an Israeli-American director, screenwriter and former film critic.
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Herbert Baumann Herbert Baumann (born 31 July 1925 in Berlin) is a German composer. He studied composition at the Internationalen Musikinstitut Berlin with Paul Höffer and Boris Blacher. His compositions were mainly for theatre and cinema.
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Roberto Santos Roberto Santos Pinhanez (1928–1987) was a Brazilian film director, known for films like "Matraga" ("A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga") and "The Great Moment" ("O Grande Momento").
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Ludger Pistor Ludger Pistor (born 16 March 1959) is a German actor born in Recklinghausen.
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Lothar-Günther Buchheim Lothar-Günther Buchheim (   ) (February 6, 1918 – February 22, 2007) was a German author and painter. He is best known for his novel "Das Boot" (1973), which became an international bestseller and was adapted in 1981 as an Oscar-nominated film.
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Furnished Room Furnished Room (German:Möblierte Zimmer) is a 1929 German silent film directed by Fred Sauer and starring Margot Landa, Fritz Schulz and Hans Albers.
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Zoltán Huszárik Zoltán Huszárik (born József Zoltán Huszárik, May 14, 1931 – October 15, 1981) was an influential Hungarian film director, screenwriter, visual artist and occasional actor, an acclaimed auteur of the European modern art film.
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Artists' Blood Artists' Blood (German: Artistenblut) is a 1949 West German comedy film directed by Wolfgang Wehrum and starring Hans Richter, Dorit Kreysler and Fritz Odemar.
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Red Curtain Trilogy The Red Curtain Trilogy is the title given to the first three films directed by Baz Luhrmann:
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Emmanuel Lubezki Emmanuel Lubezki Morgenstern, A.S.C., A.M.C. (] ; born June 21, 1964) is a Mexican cinematographer. He sometimes goes by the nickname Chivo, which means "goat" in Spanish. Lubezki has worked with many acclaimed directors, including Mike Nichols, Tim Burton, Michael Mann, Joel and Ethan Coen, and frequent collaborators Terrence Malick, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro González Iñárritu.
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Cássio Gabus Mendes Cássio Gabus Mendes (born August 29, 1961 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian actor.
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Something for Everybody (Baz Luhrmann album) Something for Everybody is an album released by Baz Luhrmann in 1998. It contains new ambient versions (either newly recorded or remixed) of music from his films and plays, including hits from "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet", "Strictly Ballroom" and "La bohème". The most popular single from the album is the spoken word song "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)".