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 (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]}

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]

• 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

• A Step at IMDb