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White Nights

6.7 136 mins Drama   Thriller   1985
Columbia Pictures   New Visions  
Director(s): Taylor Hackford

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.

Casts of White Nights

Mikhail Baryshnikov

as Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko

Gregory Hines

as Raymond Greenwood

Jerzy Skolimowski

as Colonel Chaiko

Helen Mirren

as Galina Ivanova

Geraldine Page

as Anne Wyatt

Isabella Rossellini

as Darya Greenwood

John Glover

as Wynn Scott

Stefan Gryff

as Captain Kirigin

William Hootkins

as Chuck Malarek

Shane Rimmer

as Ambassador Larry Smith

Florence Faure

as Ballerina (Death)

David Savile

as Pilot

Ian Liston

as Co-pilot

Benny Young

as Flight Engineer

Hilary Drake

as Stewardess #1

Megumi Shimanuki

as Stewardess #2

Daniel Benzali

as Dr. Asher

Maria Werlander

as Child Ballerina

Galina Pomerantzeva

as Dvornik

Sergei Rusakov

as KGB 1

Aleksandr Naumov

as KGB 2 (as Alexander Naumov)

Maryam d'Abo

as French Girlfriend

Marc Sinden

as Charles

Josephine Buchan

as Caroline

Helene Denbey

as Bess

Sussanah Morley

as Journalist in Opera House

Elisa Tornqvist

as Journalist at Consulate

Jiří Stanislav

as Chaiko’s Driver (Leningrad)

Edward Ochagavia

as KGB Agent

Marc Michalsky

as KGB Agent

Michael Petrovitch

as Helicopter Pilot

Andreas Markos

as Escamilla

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