The Shadow's Edge
2025 · Action · Crime
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Film / 1985
White Nights
Directed by
Taylor Hackford
After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.
The story
After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.
Cast
Mikhail BaryshnikovNikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko
Gregory HinesRaymond Greenwood
Jerzy SkolimowskiColonel Chaiko
Helen MirrenGalina Ivanova
Geraldine PageAnne Wyatt
Isabella RosselliniDarya Greenwood
John GloverWynn Scott
Stefan GryffCaptain Kirigin
William HootkinsChuck Malarek
Shane RimmerAmbassador Larry Smith
Florence FaureBallerina (Death)
David SavilePilot
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Ian ListonCo-pilot
Benny YoungFlight Engineer
Hilary DrakeStewardess #1
Megumi ShimanukiStewardess #2
Daniel BenzaliDr. Asher
Maria WerlanderChild Ballerina
Galina PomerantzevaDvornik
Sergei RusakovKGB 1
Aleksandr NaumovKGB 2 (as Alexander Naumov)
Maryam D'AboFrench Girlfriend
Marc SindenCharles
Josephine BuchanCaroline
Helene DenbeyBess
Sussanah MorleyJournalist in Opera House
Elisa TornqvistJournalist at Consulate
Jiří StanislavChaiko’s Driver (Leningrad)
Edward OchagaviaKGB Agent
Marc MichalskyKGB Agent
Michael PetrovitchHelicopter Pilot
Andreas MarkosEscamilla
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