question: Which director was born first, Lothar Mendes or Baz Luhrmann?
answer: Lothar Mendes
context: Title: The Man Who Could Work Miracles
  Passage: The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a black-and-white 1936 British fantasy-comedy film directed by the German-born American director Lothar Mendes.  Reputedly the best-known of Mendes' 20 films, it's a greatly expanded version of H. G. Wells’s short story of the same name and stars Roland Young with a cast of supporting players including Sir Ralph Richardson and in a London Films production from the famous Hungarian-born British producer, Sir Alexander Korda.  H.G. Wells himself worked on the adaptation, the plot revised to reflect Wells's socialist frustrations with the British upper class, and the growing threat of Communism, Fascism and Nazism in Europe at the time, something to which Mendes, Korda and Wells were all committed to combating in their creative work.
  Title: Strictly Ballroom (musical)
  Passage: Strictly Ballroom the Musical is a musical theatre adaptation of the 1992 film "Strictly Ballroom".  It is credited as being created by Baz Luhrmann with book by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce adapted by Terry Johnson.  The score consists of existing music and songs, and new musical numbers by David Foster, Sia Furler, Isaac Hasson, Bernie Herms, Baz Lurhmann, MoZella, Neff-U, Craig Pearce, Eddie Perfect, Linda Thompson and Elliot Wheeler.
  Title: Moulin Rouge! Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film
  Passage: Moulin Rouge!  Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film is a soundtrack album to Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film "Moulin Rouge! ".  It was released on May 8, 2001.  The album features most of the songs featured in the film.  However, some of the songs are alternate versions and there are two or three major songs that are left off.  The original film versions and extra songs were featured on the second soundtrack.
  Title: The Great Gatsby: Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film
  Passage: The Great Gatsby: Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film (also known as Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film The Great Gatsby) is the soundtrack album to the 2013 film "The Great Gatsby", an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the same name.  Interscope Records released it on May 6, 2013.  The album was produced by Baz Luhrmann and Anton Monsted, with Jay-Z serving as the album's executive producer.  The soundtrack comprises fourteen songs, including new material and cover versions performed by various artists.  It contains a mixture of genre, including hip hop, jazz, and alternative music.  Luhrmann specifically selected these styles of music to better immerse the audience into the story of "The Great Gatsby".
  Title: Three Cuckoo Clocks
  Passage: Three Cuckoo Clocks (German:Die drei Kuckucksuhren) is a 1926 German silent drama film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Nina Vanna and Nils Asther.  It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin on 25 May 1926.  It was based on a novel by .  Unlike many of Mendes' films from the period, which are now considered lost, it still survives.
  Title: Baz Luhrmann
  Passage: 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.
  Title: Romeo and Juliet on screen
  Passage: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet may be one of the most-screened plays of all time.  The most notable theatrical releases were George Cukor's multi-Oscar-nominated 1936 production "Romeo and Juliet", Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film "Romeo and Juliet", and Baz Luhrmann's 1996 MTV-inspired "Romeo + Juliet".  The latter two were both, at the time, the highest-grossing Shakespeare films.  Cukor featured the mature actors Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard as the teenage lovers while Zeffirelli populated his film with beautiful young people, and Baz Luhrmann produced a heavily cut fast-paced version aimed at teenage audiences.
  Title: Prince of Tempters
  Passage: Prince of Tempters is a 1926 American silent romance film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Lois Moran, Ben Lyon and Lya De Putti.  It is based on the novel "The Ex-Duke" by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim.  The film was made at the Cosmopolitan Studios in New York.  It was the first film made in America by the German director Lothar Mendes, who married Dorothy Mackaill while working on the production.
  Title: Lothar Mendes
  Passage: 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.
  Title: Luxury Liner (1933 film)
  Passage: Luxury Liner is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring George Brent, Zita Johann and Vivienne Osborne.  It was based on a 1932 novel by Gina Kaus, and made by Paramount Pictures.  Mendes worked on a number of films for Paramount during the era.  Shortly after making the film, he went to Britain where he directed his most celebrated film "Jew Süss".
citations: Lothar Mendes Baz Luhrmann