Samson Samsonov (Самсон Иосифович Эдельштейн) - Soviet and Russian film director. He was born February 23, 1921 in Novozybkov, Russia.
Best known for his work on films like Much Ado About Nothing (1973), An Optimistic Tragedy (1963), The Grasshopper (1955), Milyy drug davno zabytykh let... (1996).