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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".
A defector (Mikhail Baryshnikov) and an expatriate American dancer (Gregory Hines) plan to escape from Russia. 3,197 IMDb 6.6 2 h 16 min 1985. X-Ray PG-13. Arts, Entertainment, and Culture · Drama · Emotional · Thrilling. Available to rent or buy.
Jerzy Skolimowski, the Polish director of " Moonlighting ," plays a Soviet intelligence official who masterminds the would-be rehabilitation of Baryshnikov. As he attempts to spy and eavesdrop on the dancer's activities, the movie takes on a kind of grim monotony that's the opposite of the energy in the dances.
After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The K.G.B. keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again.
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.
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.
When his plane makes an emergency landing in Siberia, ballet dancer Nikolai Rodchenko (Mikhail Baryshnikov) is recognized as a defector and brought into custody.
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Aug 18, 2003 · A top Russian ballet dancer, who defected to the US, crash lands back in his own country. The KGB throws him in Siberia to live with an American expatriate and his Russian wife as a way of convincing him to stay in his homeland.
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 Vietnam War.
