I Step Through Moscow

Walking the Streets of Moscow
Nikita Mikhalkov on the 1964 film poster.
Directed by	Georgiy Daneliya
Written by	Gennady Shpalikov
Starring	Nikita Mikhalkov Aleksei Loktev Evgeniy Steblov
Music by	Andrei Petrov
Cinematography	Vadim Yusov
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1964
Running time	78 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Walking the Streets of Moscow (Russian: Я шагаю по Москве, translit. Ya shagayu po Moskve; I walk across Moscow) is a 1964 Soviet film directed by Georgiy Daneliya and produced by Mosfilm studios. It stars Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei Loktev, Evgeniy Steblov and Galina Polskikh. The film also features cameos by four People's Artists of the USSR: Rolan Bykov, Vladimir Basov, Lev Durov, and Inna Churikova. The famous movie theme, performed by Mikhalkov, was written by the composer Andrei Petrov. The film, regarded as one of the most characteristic of the Khrushchev Thaw, premiered at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival and won a prize for the work of cameraman,Vadim Yusov, best known for his subsequent collaboration with Andrei Tarkovsky.

The film opens at a Moscow airport in summer 1963. A young man, Volodya (Aleksei Loktev), calls out to a young woman he sees singing to herself and dancing.

Volodya is an aspiring writer from Siberia. His first short story has just been published in the magazine Yunost ("Youth"), and a famous author, Voronin, has invited him to Moscow to discuss his work. In the Moscow Metro Volodya unexpectedly makes a friend, Kolya (Nikita Mikhalkov), who is returning home after a hard night shift. Volodya wants to stay at his old friends' home, but he doesn't know where the necessary street is so Kolya decided to help him to find it.