Un famoso ballerino russo, rifugiatosi otto anni prima in Occidente, si trova bloccato nel suo paese di origine in seguito ad un incidente aereo. Braccato dal KGB, stabilisce un'inaspettata ... Leggi tuttoUn famoso ballerino russo, rifugiatosi otto anni prima in Occidente, si trova bloccato nel suo paese di origine in seguito ad un incidente aereo. Braccato dal KGB, stabilisce un'inaspettata amicizia con un ballerino nero ed escogitano un piano di fuga.Un famoso ballerino russo, rifugiatosi otto anni prima in Occidente, si trova bloccato nel suo paese di origine in seguito ad un incidente aereo. Braccato dal KGB, stabilisce un'inaspettata amicizia con un ballerino nero ed escogitano un piano di fuga.
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- 3 vittorie e 2 candidature totali
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- QuizMikhail Baryshnikov reportedly was insistent with the producers that gramatically-correct Russian be spoken in this movie instead of the often nonsensical hybrid often used in American movies. Baryshinkov also did a scene where he spoke French. In real life, it was his second language.
- BlooperContrary to the title of the film, White Nights describes the continuous daylight in regions along the Arctic Circle, the moments at the end of the film show the characters engulfed in complete darkness outside the consulate. This would not have happened in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) between May and August.
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Pilot: [over the P.A] Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please? This is the Captain speaking. We have developed electrical problems, and we have to land immediately. There is a Soviet military airfield about 75 miles from here...
Anne Wyatt: [half asleep] Where are we? Are we landing?
[Kolya runs to the lavatory to destroy his identity papers]
Anne Wyatt: Where are you going?
Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko: What do you mean? We're landing in Russia!
- Versioni alternativeThe UK cinema release was cut by 16s to remove two uses of 'fuck' to earn a PG rating. Subsequent video versions restore the strong language and raise the certificate to 15.
- ConnessioniFeatured in At the Movies: The Holcroft Covenant/Bring on the Night/Target (1985)
- Colonne sonoreSeparate Lives
(Love Theme)
Written by Stephen Bishop
Produced by Arif Mardin, Phil Collins, and Hugh Padgham
Performed by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin
Courtesy of Atlantic Records and Virgin Records
The movie is imaginative - having Gregory Hines in a theater in Siberia, a defector to Russia when disillusioned and unable to find use for his talents as an adult tap dancer in America after the Vietnam War, married to the translator initially assigned him (an astonishing peformance by Isabella Rosellini), and performing Porgy & Bess to audiences including Russian troops - well, it's a character and situation you don't find in movies every day!
I was amazed at the close-knit work of actors who were not then first name movie stars - and at how well-drawn these characters are -
Helen Mirren is superb as Baryshnikov's former lover, partner, and now director of the Kirov Ballet - angry and constantly deluding herself that things are getting more artistically free in Russia -
Baryshnikov is excellent, reliving the pain of defection in his old theater, seeing a tape of himself when at 17 he was care-free and full of illusory ambition, the discovery of the erasure of his name among children in Russia, the anger of his former partner for his abandonment of her and denunciation of his "selfishness" in defecting -
Hines as a man living with an atrocious mistake and trying always to justify itself to himself - in Siberia, he seems like a man on Mars -
an almost unrecognizable Rosellini as a Russian woman in pained love with Hines (just the looks on her face of love and sympathy and pity and helplessness for Hines are so powerful and moving - I'll never forget them)-
the four are so very very fine together. Each TRULY seems the person they're portraying. If one were to see news photographs or a documentary about such characters - they would look this way, sound this way, move and speak and dress this way.
The dancing is very enjoyable to watch - and you really needn't be a fan of dance (I'm not) to marvel at it.
The only downside of the movie is that it takes these four fascinating and pained characters, and stuffs them into a somewhat formulaic action plot. I also found the music too heavy throughout - let there be silences as they contemplate their messy situations.
This is very well worth seeing.
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- Data di uscita
- Paese di origine
- Sito ufficiale
- Lingue
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- White Nights
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Aziende produttrici
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- Budget
- 20.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 42.160.849 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 477.539 USD
- 24 nov 1985
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 42.160.849 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 16 minuti
- Colore
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1