
White Nights
A tense Cold War escape thriller lifted by electrifying dance sequences and a moving friendship between two defectors.
- Directed by
- Taylor Hackford
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Starring
- Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski
- Tagline
- Two men. Not soldiers. Not heroes. Just dancers. Willing to risk their lives for freedom-and each other.
- 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.
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- Directed by
- Taylor Hackford
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Starring
- Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski












