white nights

Director: taylor hackford

Actor: mikhail baryshnikov,gregory hines,jerzy skolimowski,helen mirren

Data Published: Fri Dec 06 1985

Genres: Drama,Music

Key Words: russia,ballet,kgb,soviet union,defector

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090319/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Nights_(1985_film)

Description: White Nights is a movie starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, and Jerzy Skolimowski. A Russian American ballet dancer's airplane is forced to land in USSR, where he's "repatriated". He stays with an American man married to a...

Plot: Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko (Baryshnikov) is a Soviet ballet dancer who had defected from the Soviet Union. The plane carrying him to a next performance in Tokyo has engine trouble and crashes in Siberia. He is hurt and is soon recognized by KGB officer Colonel Chaiko (Jerzy Skolimowski). Chaiko then contacts African-American tap dancer, Raymond Greenwood (Hines), who has defected to the Soviet Union, and gets them both to Leningrad. Chaiko wants Rodchenko to dance at the season's opening night at the Kirov, and Greenwood to babysit Rodchenko. To convince Rodchenko, Chaiko uses Galina Ivanova (Helen Mirren), a former ballerina who never left the Soviet Union and is an old flame of Rodchenko. After an initial period of racial and artistic friction, the two dancers (and defectors in opposite directions) become strong friends. When Raymond finds that his wife Darya Greenwood (Isabella Rossellini) is pregnant, he decides he doesn't want their child to grow up in the Soviet Union, and together, with Rodchenko, they plan an escape, with the help from Galina, who still has feelings for Rodchenko. While the escape plan is going on, Raymond chooses to stay behind to delay Chaiko, gaining time for Nikolai and Darya to get to the Consulate at Leningrad. Even though Raymond is incarcerated when the whole plan is revealed, he is finally traded by the Soviets for a political prisoner from Latin America, and reunites with Darya and Nikolai.