White Nights is not currently booked at any Toronto cinema. We last tracked it at TIFF Bell Lightbox in August 2026. Set a free alert below and we'll email you the moment it's programmed again. Directed by Taylor Hackford, released in 1985, drama and thriller, 136 minutes long.
Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko (Baryshnikov) is a Soviet ballet dancer who had defected from the Soviet Union. The plane carrying him to a next performance in Tokyo has engine trouble and crashes in Siberia. He is hurt and is soon recognized by KGB officer Colonel Chaiko (Jerzy Skolimowski). Chaiko then contacts African-American tap dancing, Raymond Greenwood (Hines), who has Defectioned to the Soviet Union, and gets them both to Leningrad. Chaiko wants Rodchenko to dance at the season's opening night at the Mariinsky Ballet, and Greenwood to babysit Rodchenko. To convince Rodchenko, Chaiko uses Galina Ivanova (Helen Mirren), a former ballerina who never left the Soviet Union and is an old flame of Rodchenko.
via TheTVDB
