Step Forward (film) explained

Step Forward
Director:	Naum Birman^[1]
Producer:	Galina Shadur Karen Shakhnazarov
Starring:	Lyudmila Gurchenko Nikolay Volkov Jr. Andrey Popov Yevgeny Leonov Lev Durov Boris Shcherbakov Andrei Mironov
Cinematography:	Alexander Chirov
Music:	Stanislav Pozhlakov
Editing:	Lyudmila Sviridenko
Studio:	Lenfilm
Country:	Russia
Language:	Russian
Runtime:	77 min.

Step Forward (Russian: Шаг навстречу|Shag navstrechu) is a Soviet film-an almanac, consisting of five novels.

Plot

Five novels, united by the history of the nascent love of two elderly people, meeting every day on the way to work. Meeting every day in public transport, they do not suspect that they are neighbors around the house, and they are constantly giving each other a lot of trouble.^[2]

Cast

Step Forward

• Lyudmila Gurchenko as Valentina Stepanovna
• Nikolay Volkov Jr. as Igor Anatolievich
• Yelena Anderegg as janitor

The Captain's Daughter

• Andrey Popov as captain
• Yelena Tsyplakova as Lida, captain's daughter, student
• Georgy Vitsin as man in buffet
• Lyudmila Ivanova as taxi driver
• Vera Titova as barmaid
• Anatoly Popov as student
• Natalia Chetverikova as girl at airport

Father Seraphim

• Yevgeny Leonov as Seraphim Nikitich, engineer
• Valentina Vladimirova as Maria Timofeevna, his wife
• Yelena Solovey as Tatyana
• Semyon Morozov as assistant engineer
• Valentina Telegina as nurse in hospital
• Olesya Ivanova as stationmaster

Meat in Argentine

• Lev Durov as Georgy Dmitrievich, cook
• Valentina Titova as his wife
• Vladimir Basov as Nikolay Borisovich Streshnikov, saxophonist^[3]

Wedding March

• Yelena Drapeko as Katya Zaitseva
• Boris Shcherbakov as Vovka Monastyryov, her fiance
• Anatoly Rudakov as Sergey
• Svetlana Vadas as Vera
• Stanislav Sokolov as seller

Total for 30 kopecks

• Andrei Mironov as Markel Vladimirovich Kochetkov, dentist^[4]
• Yekaterina Vasilyeva as Lyuba, his wife
• Pavel Pankov as Alexander Yevgenievich, head physician
• Alexander Anisimov as taxi driver
• Sergey Boyarsky as lottery ticket seller
• Vladimir Zemlyanikin as correspondent
• Natalya Krachkovskaya as winner of lottery
• Svetlana Karpinskaya as a nurse
• Kira Kreylis-Petrova as controller in a supermarket
• Igor Okrepilov as doctor
• Inna Slobodskaya as dentist
• Lidia Shtykan as worker of supermarket
• Kirill Hunn as patient with a cane
• Era Ziganshina as saleswoman

Filming

Some episodes of film were shot at the stations of Saint Petersburg Metro Narvskaya and Dachnoye.^[5]

External links

• • Step Forward (1975)

Notes and References

1. https://tvkultura.ru/brand/show/brand_id/27383/ Шаг навстречу х/ф
2. https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/7958/annot/ Шаг навстречу. Несколько историй весёлых и грустных
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=9L7dBAAAQBAJ&dq=%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%B3+%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D1%83+1975&pg=PT197 Владимир Басов. В режиссуре, в жизни и любви
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=5WagAAAAQBAJ&dq=%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%B3+%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D1%83+1975&pg=PA1975 Андрей Миронов: баловень судьбы
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=v0IzDwAAQBAJ&dq=%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%B3+%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D1%83+1975&pg=PT504 Метрополитен Петербурга. Легенды метро, проекты, архитекторы, художники и скульпторы, станции