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White Nights(Movie, 1985)

2h 16min | Genres: Drama, Thriller
White NightsRating: 3.4/5 (with 5050 votes)
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 ()
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About White Nights

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.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), French (FR), Russian (RU)
Translated into 18 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date GB: 11/22/1985
Director: Taylor Hackford
Producer: Taylor Hackford
Screenwriter: James Goldman, Nancy Dowd
Film Editor: Fredric Steinkamp
Director of Photography: David Watkin
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"白夜"
"Bílé noci"
"白夜逃亡"
"il Sole a Mezzanotte"
Revenue: 42,160,849 USD

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Other movies with this title: White Nights (SU, 1960), White Nights (IR, 2003), White Nights (2016), White Nights (RU, 2017)

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