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White Nights
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Dance styles adapted:
Director:
Taylor Hackford
Cast:
Mikhail Baryshnikov / Helen Mirren
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Description:
Hines plays an American tap dancer is Raymond Greenwood, who has defected to the Soviet Union. He encounters and befriends Nikolai Kolya Rodchenko, a Soviet ballet dancer played by Baryshnikov, who had previously defected in the other direction. Isabella Rossellini plays Darya, Greenwood wife, and Helen Mirren plays Galina Ivanova, a former ballerina who never left the Soviet Union and is an old flame of Rodchenko.Greenwood and Rodchenko to performed a cinematic pas de deux after a plane carrying the latter makes a forced landing in Siberia and he is recognized. Both dancers are brought to Leningrad where the Soviets seek to exploit Rodchenko talent. After an initial period of racial and artistic friction, the two dancers become strong friends and Greenwood helps arrange an escape. Rodchenko second defection, at the end of the film, presages the later fall of the Soviet Union.
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