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White Nights (film)
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 Promotional movie poster for the film |
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| Directed by | Taylor Hackford |
| Produced by | William S. Gilmore Taylor Hackford |
| Written by | James Goldman (story) James Goldman & Eric Hughes (screenplay) |
| Starring | Mikhail Baryshnikov Gregory Hines Jerzy Skolimowski Helen Mirren Geraldine Page Isabella Rossellini John Glover William Hootkins |
| Music by | Michel Colombier |
| Cinematography | David Watkin |
| Editing by | Frederic Steinkamp William Steinkamp |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | November 22, 1985 (USA) |
| Running time | 136 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Unknown |
| Gross revenue | $13,046,465 (USA) |
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White Nights is a 1985 movie starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, and Isabella Rossellini. It was shot in Finland.
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Hines plays an American tap dancer who has defected to the Soviet Union. He encounters and befriends a Soviet ballet dancer, played by Baryshnikov, who had defected to the West. Isabella Rossellini plays Hines's wife and Helen Mirren, a former ballerina who never left the Soviet Union, is an old flame of Baryshnikov's.
Hines and Baryshnikov perform a cinematic pas de deux after a plane carrying Baryshnikov's character (Nikolai "Kolya" Rodchenko) makes a forced landing in Siberia and he is recognized. Both dancers are brought to Leningrad where the Soviets seek to exploit the ballet dancer's talents. After an initial period of racial and artistic friction, the two dancers (and defectors in opposite directions) become fast friends, and Hines helps arrange an escape. Baryshnikov's second defection, at the end of the film, presages the later fall of the Soviet Union, similar to Rocky IV. The film is notable not only for the dancing of Hines and Baryshnikov, but also for the Academy Award winning song "Say You, Say Me" by Lionel Richie, as well as "Separate Lives" by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin.
- Director Taylor Hackford met his future wife, Oscar Award winning actress Helen Mirren, during the filming of White Nights. As a young woman Mirren had vowed never to marry but after 12 years together she and Hackford married on December 31, 1997 in Scotland at Ardersier Parish Church near Inverness.[1]
- White Nights at the Internet Movie Database
- White Nights at the TCM Movie Database
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