- HD 1080
- Runtime: 136m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Taylor Hackford
- Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Page
- keywords: escape, kgb, tap dancing, ballet, airplane crash, siberia, emigrant, bolshoi ballet
- Production_studio: Columbia Pictures, New Visions
- Slogan: Two men. Not soldiers. Not heroes. Just dancers. Willing to risk their lives for freedom-and each other.
- The White Nights is featured in the top rankings of 1985
- #53 in Top Drama Movies of 1985
- #15 in Top Thriller Movies of 1985
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.
