title: A Step
text: # A Step
  
  A Step (Russian: Шаг) is a 1988 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Mitta.
  
  ## Plot
  
  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.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Leonid Filatov
  * Komaki Kurihara
  * Oleg Tabakov as Tutunov
  * Elena Yakovleva
  * Goh Watanabe
  * Vladimir Ilin
  * Andrey Kharitonov
  * Akira Kume
  * Taketoshi Naitô
  * Detlev Kügow
  