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White Nights is a 1985 movie starring Gregory Hines and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

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Hines plays an American tap dancer, who has defected to, and lives in, the Soviet Union, and who encounters and befriends a Soviet ballet dancer who had defected to the West.

Hines and Baryshnikov perform a cinematic pas de deux after the ballet dancer's plane makes a forced landing in Siberia and he is recognized. The ballet dancer and the tap dancer are brought to Leningrad where the Soviets seek to exploit the ballet dancer's talents. After an initial period of racial and artistic friction, the two dancers (and defectors in opposite directions) become fast friends and Hines helps arrange an escape. Baryshnikov's second defection at the end of the film presages the later fall of the Soviet Union, similar to Rocky IV. The film, while regarded by a spirited minority as the best film ever made, is notable mostly for the dancing of Hines and Misha, but also for the Academy Award winning song "Say You, Say Me" by Lionel Richie.

Filmed also in Pori, Finland. Pictures when filmed in Finland is . (Finnish language page)

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Movies - White Nights

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