Question: Do director of film Night Of The Blood Beast and director of film The Grasshopper (1955 Film) share the same nationality?

<P0-S0> Samson Iosifovich Samsonov( 23 February 1921 – 31 August 2002) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter, he was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1991. <P0-S1> Samson Samsonov graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1951, where he studied under Sergei Gerasimov. <SEP> <P1-S0> The Grasshopper is a 1955 Soviet drama film directed by Samson Samsonov based on a short story of the same title by Anton Chekhov. <P1-S1> It was nominated for a BAFTA award for Best Film in 1957. <P1-S2> The lead character is said to be based on Sofia Kuvshinnikova who although married to another was until 1890 living with the painter Isaac Levitan in the town of Plyos where Sofia was improving her painting skills. <P1-S3> Chekhov wrote" The Grasshopper" shortly after this time when the couple had returned. <P1-S4> Chekhov was a close friend of Sofia's and may have had strong affections for her. <P1-S5> The story was a way of criticizing her betrayal, both of him and her innocent husband, and created a small scandal. <P1-S6> According to the memoirs of Chekhov's brother, Mikhail, the situation almost led to a duel with Levitan, but it was avoided thanks to the intercession of a mutual friend, Tatiana Shchepkina- Kupernik. <SEP> <P2-S0> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> <P3-S0> Night of the Blood Beast is a 1958 American science- fiction horror film about a team of scientists who are stalked by an alien creature, which implants its embryos in an astronaut's body during a space flight. <P3-S1> Produced by exploitation filmmaker Roger Corman and his brother Gene, it was one of the first films directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and was written by first- time screenwriter Martin Varno, who was 21 years old. <P3-S2> It starred several actors who had regularly worked with Roger Corman, including Michael Emmet, Ed Nelson, Steve Dunlap, Georgianna Carter and Tyler McVey. <P3-S3> The film was theatrically released in Dec., 1958 on a double bill with" She Gods of Shark Reef". <P3-S4> It took Varno six weeks to write the script, the original working title of which was Creature from Galaxy 27. <P3-S5> The story was partially influenced by the real- life Space Race and the Howard Hawks film" The Thing from Another World"( 1951). <P3-S6> Screenwriters Jerome Bixby and Harold Jacob Smith gave Varno uncredited assistance with the dialogue. <P3-S7> With a budget of about$ 68,000, it was shot over seven days at the Charlie Chaplin Studios, Bronson Canyon and a television station on Mount Lee in Hollywood. <P3-S8> The" Blood Beast" alien costume was also previously used in the Roger Corman film" Teenage Caveman"( 1958), which was filmed just two weeks earlier. <P3-S9> Art director Daniel Haller, who built the rocket- ship and other props, slept at the sound stage between work sessions. <P3-S10> Following dissatisfaction with his treatment by the Cormans, Varno pursued two successful arbitration cases, one of which was for underpayment. <P3-S11> The other was in response to Gene Corman's original story writing credit, even though Varno claimed to have written the entire story himself. <P3-S12> The film was featured in a 1996 episode of the comedy television series," Mystery Science Theater 3000". <SEP> <P4-S0> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> <P5-S0> Bernard L. Kowalski (August 2, 1929 – October 26, 2007) was an American film and television director of Polish descent, nominated for two Primetime Emmys.