White Nights

White Nights is a drama film about ballet from 1985, recorded in Finland and directed by Taylor Hackford. Lionel Richie won for his song Say You, Say Me a Academy Award for best original song and a Golden Globe.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The black American tap dancer Raymond Greenwood (Gregory Hines) is defected to the Soviet Union to escape discrimination. There he became friends with the Russian ballet dancer Nikolai ' Kolya ' Rodchenko (Mikhail Baryshnikov), which is defected to the West. Rodchenkos old flame and former ballerina Galina Ivanova (Helen Mirren) is remained in the Soviet Union.
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After a plane has to make a forced landing with Nikolai in Siberia, he is recognized by the KGB as a defector. The dancer is brought to Leningrad, where the Soviets want to exploit the talent of the ballet dancer. There he meets Raymond Greenwood. After a period of discrimination and artistic friction, the two dancers (and defectors) good friends. Raymond helps end up with an escape plan for Nikolai.

Nikolai is charged at the end of the movie again to, what an omen is of the later collapse of the Soviet Union (just like in the movie Rocky IV). The film is not only known for its dance of Hines and Baryshnikov, but also because of the numbers Say You, Say Me by Lionel Richie and Seperate Lives by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Trivia[ Edit] ==
 * Director Taylor Hackford met his future wife Mirren on the set of White Nights. As a young woman Mirren had called never too want to get married, but after twelve years together, the two were married on 31 december 1997 in Scotland in the Ardersier Parish Church, near Inverness. [1]