

White Nights
DirectorTaylor Hackford
“Two men. Not soldiers. Not heroes. Just dancers. Willing to risk their lives for freedom-and each other.”
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.
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Cast

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

Florence Faure
Ballerina (Death)
David Savile
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