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White Nights is a 1985 American musical drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren and Isabella Rossellini. It was choreographed by Twyla Tharp.
Dec 6, 1985 · White Nights: Directed by Taylor Hackford. With Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren. A Russian American ballet dancer's airplane is forced to land in USSR, where he's "repatriated".
Synopsis. 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.
PG-13. The story of Nikolai Rodchenko (Mikhail Baryshnikov), a Russian defector and Raymond Greenwood (Gregory Hines), an American tap dancer who defected behind the Iron Curtain during the ...
74% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings. When his plane makes an emergency landing in Siberia, ballet dancer Nikolai Rodchenko (Mikhail Baryshnikov) is recognized as a defector and brought into custody...
But "White Nights" has been made in a cynical world where it is actually believed that a dance movie will interest more people if it is also a thriller: a pas de deux between the CIA and the KGB, if you will.
White Nights. 1985 · 2 hr 17 min. PG-13. Drama · Music · War. After an expat Russian dancer gets stranded in the USSR, he forms an unlikely bond with the American defector he's been assigned to live with.
