White Nights

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Release date: November 22, 1985
Duration: 136 minutes
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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.

Starring

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko
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Gregory Hines
Raymond Greenwood
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Jerzy Skolimowski
Colonel Chaiko
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Helen Mirren
Galina Ivanova
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Geraldine Page
Anne Wyatt