A Step

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Step
	Russian: Шаг
Directed by	Aleksandr Mitta
Written by	Yoshiki Iwama; Viktor Merezhko; Aleksandr Mitta; Vladimir Tsvetov;
Starring	Leonid Filatov; Komaki Kurihara; Oleg Tabakov; Elena Yakovleva; Goh Watanabe;
Cinematography	Valeriy Shuvalov
Edited by	Nadezhda Veselovskaya
Music by	Igor Kefalidi; Igor Nazaruk; Alfred Schnittke;
Production; companies	Mosfilm; Shigoto Film Production
Release date	1988;
Running time	144 min.
Countries	Soviet Union; Japan
Language	Russian

A Step (Russian: Шаг, romanized: Shag) is a 1988 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Mitta.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Plot[edit]

1959 year. Japanese Keiko, together with the Soviet counterpart Gusev, are managed to send the polio vaccine to Japan, as a result of which the lives of 10 million Japanese children were saved.^[4]

Cast[edit]

Leonid Filatov as Sergey Gusev
Komaki Kurihara as Keiko
Oleg Tabakov as Tutunov
Elena Yakovleva as Tatiana
Goh Watanabe as Ken
Vladimir Ilin as Medyaev
Andrey Kharitonov as Igor
Akira Kume as minister
Taketoshi Naitô as director
Detlev Kügow as Horst^[5]
Mikhail Gorevoy as Venka, the laboratory assistant

References[edit]

External links[edit]

A Step at IMDb

[1] От Екатерины II до красного бегемота: история отечественной вакцинации

[2] Прощай, «Овод»: актер Андрей Харитонов сгорел от рака в 59 лет

[3] По следам адмирала Путятина

[4] Шаг // КиноПоиск

[5] A Step (II) (1989) Full Cast / Crew

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