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White Nights

(1985)

November 22, 1985 2h 16m
67%
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Overview

After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.

Taylor Hackford

Director

Top Billed Cast

MB

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko

GH

Gregory Hines

Raymond Greenwood

JS

Jerzy Skolimowski

Colonel Chaiko

HM

Helen Mirren

Galina Ivanova

GP

Geraldine Page

Anne Wyatt

IR

Isabella Rossellini

Darya Greenwood

JG

John Glover

Wynn Scott

SG

Stefan Gryff

Captain Kirigin

WH

William Hootkins

Chuck Malarek

SR

Shane Rimmer

Ambassador Larry Smith

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