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White Nights

Release Date:November 22, 1985

Running Time:136 min

Genres:Drama, Thriller

Director

Cast

Mikhail Baryshnikov Gregory Hines Jerzy Skolimowski Helen Mirren Geraldine Page Isabella Rossellini John Glover Stefan Gryff William Hootkins Shane Rimmer Florence Faure David Savile

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Synopsis

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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