White Nights (1985 film)
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Promotional movie poster for the film
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| Directed by | Taylor Hackford |
| Produced by |
William P. Gilmore Taylor Hackford |
| Screenplay by |
James Goldman Eric Hughes Nancy Dowd (uncredited) |
| Story by | James Goldman |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Michel Colombier |
| Cinematography | David Watkin |
| Edited by |
Fredric Steinkamp William Steinkamp |
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Production
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Delphi IV Productions
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Release date
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Running time
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136 minutes |
| Language |
English Russian |
| Box office | $42,160,849 |
White Nights is a 1985 American drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and choreographed by Twyla Tharp and stars Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren and Isabella Rossellini. It was shot in Finland, Portugal, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and Austria.
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).
Taylor Hackford met his future wife, Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren, during the filming of White Nights.
Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko (Baryshnikov) is a Soviet ballet dancer who had defected from the Soviet Union. The plane carrying him to a next performance in Tokyo has engine trouble and crashes in Siberia. He is hurt and is soon recognized by KGB officer Colonel Chaiko (Jerzy Skolimowski). Chaiko then contacts African-American tap dancer, Raymond Greenwood (Hines), 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. To convince Rodchenko, Chaiko uses Galina Ivanova (Mirren), a former ballerina who never left the Soviet Union and is an old flame of Rodchenko.
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