White Nights (1985)

Directed by

Taylor Hackford

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 16m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 146 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Russian ballet dancer who defected to the United States is forced to return to the Soviet Union after a plane crash. He is paired with an American tap dancer who has also been living in exile, and together they plan an escape from the country.

tensedramaticmelancholicvisually starkpoignanturgentsoberingemotionally charged

What happens

White Nights is a 1985 American musical drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren and Isabella Rossellini. It was choreographed by Twyla Tharp. The title refers to the sunlit summer nights of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), the setting for the majority of the film, situated just a few degrees below the Arctic Circle. The film is notable both for the dancing of Hines and Baryshnikov and for the Academy Award-winning song "Say You, Say Me" by Lionel Richie in 1986, as well as "Separate Lives" performed by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin and written by Stephen Bishop (also nominated). The film was the international film debut of Isabella Rossellini and Taylor Hackford met his future wife, Helen Mirren, during filming. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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