White Nights

• 6.7 Drama
• 1985-11-22
• 136 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Mikhail Baryshnikov (Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko) Gregory Hines (Raymond Greenwood) Jerzy Skolimowski (Colonel Chaiko) Helen Mirren (Galina Ivanova) Geraldine Page (Anne Wyatt) Isabella Rossellini (Darya Greenwood) John Glover (Wynn Scott) Stefan Gryff (Captain Kirigin) William Hootkins (Chuck Malarek) Shane Rimmer (Ambassador Larry Smith)

Director:

Taylor Hackford

Writer:

James Goldman Eric Hughes