White Nights is a 1985 American drama film film directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren and Isabella Rossellini. It also contains an early-career performance by Maryam d'Abo. It was shot in Finland, England, Scotland, Portugal, and the Soviet Union. 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, as well as Separate Lives performed by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin and written by Stephen Bishop . Taylor Hackford met his future wife,... Oscar Award-winning actress Helen Mirren, during the filming of White Nights. Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko is a Soviet ballet dancer who had defected from the Soviet Union. The plane carrying him to Tokyo has to make a forced landing in Siberia, and he is recognized by KGB officer Colonel Chaiko . Chaiko then contacts African-American tap dancer, Raymond Greenwood , who has defected to the Soviet Union and gets them both to Leningrad. Chaiko wants Rodchenko to dance at the season's opening night at the Kirov, and Greenwood to babysit Rodchenko.
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| Release date: | 1985 |
| Directed by: | Taylor Hackford |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 136 Minutes |
| Producer: | Taylor Hackford |
| Editor: | Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp |
| Music by: | Michel Colombier |
| Cinematography: | David Watkin |
| Screenplay by: | Eric Hughes, James Goldman |
| Genre: | Thriller |