White Nights

Name: White Nights
Genre: Music, Drama, Classic
Released: 1985
Duration: 136 min
Cast: Helen Mirren, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Geraldine Page

Taylor Hackford19852h 16mMusic, Drama, Classic

Why we chose it

Mikhail Baryshnikov, the celebrated ballet star, plays a defector whom the KGB puts back on stage in Leningrad, sharing a flat with an American master of tap. Isabella Rossellini, Helen Mirren and, of all people, Jerzy Skolimowski join the cast, but when these two dance, nothing else matters.

Synopsis

Somewhere over Siberia, a plane carrying a Russian ballet star makes an emergency landing on Soviet soil. He is Nikolai Rodchenko, who fled the country years ago and never meant to come back. A KGB colonel installs him in a Leningrad flat and tells him he’ll be dancing at the Kirov again. He has to share the flat with an American who ran the other way.