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White Nights (1985) [PG-13]

Release Date:
November 22, 1985

Original Title:
White Nights

Alternate Titles:
Bílé noci
il Sole a Mezzanotte
白夜
白夜逃亡

Genres:
Drama | Thriller

Production Companies:
Columbia Pictures
New Visions

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
CZ: 18+  JP: G  NL: 16  US: PG-13 

Runtime: 136

Two men. Not soldiers. Not heroes. Just dancers. Willing to risk their lives for freedom-and each other.

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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.

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Production

ADR Editor:
Jay Kamen

Accountant:
Gerald C. Wheatley

Additional Photography:
John Harris
Kenneth J. Withers

Additional Writing:
Nancy Dowd

Aerial Camera:
Gregory J. Schmidt

Aerial Coordinator:
Jeff Hawke

Aerial Director of Photography:
Frank M. Holgate

Art Direction:
Richard Dawking
Austen Spriggs
Malcolm Middleton

Assistant Art Director:
Stuart Rose

Assistant Director:
Ray Corbett
José de Sá Caetano
Matti Ollila

Assistant Editor:
Peter Culverwell
Rick Meyer
Valerie Lesser
Karl F. Steinkamp

Associate Editor:
Deveril Goodman

Associate Producer:
Bill Borden

Best Boy Electric:
Alan Barry

Boom Operator:
Dushko Indjic

Camera Operator:
Freddie Cooper

Casting:
Jeremy Zimmermann
Nancy Klopper
Noel Davis

Chief Lighting Technician:
Maurice Gillett

Choreographer:
Twyla Tharp
Roland Petit
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Clapper Loader:
Shane O'Neill

Color Timer:
Ron Lambert

Construction Manager:
Syd Nightingale

Continuity:
Harold Michelson
Lissa Ruben

Costume Design:
Evangeline Harrison

Director:
Taylor Hackford

Director of Photography:
David Watkin

Editor:
Fredric Steinkamp
William Steinkamp

Executive In Charge Of Production:
Denis Holt

Focus Puller:
Mike Connors

Grip:
Ray Hall

Hairdresser:
Barry Richardson

Location Casting:
Paula Gilmore

Location Manager:
Peter Elford
Bernard Hanson

Makeup Artist:
Neville Smallwood
Madeleine Masters

Music Consultant:
Jules Chaikin

Music Supervisor:
Phil Ramone

Original Music Composer:
Michel Colombier

Playback Coordinator:
Trevor Rutherford

Producer:
William S. Gilmore
Taylor Hackford

Production Assistant:
Jeff Conroy
Carrie Stein

Production Coordinator:
Mo Coppitters
Johanna Kärävä

Production Design:
Philip Harrison

Production Manager:
Neville C. Thompson
Anja Harjula
Maria do Carmo Moser

Projection:
Roy Moores

Property Master:
George Ball

Screenplay:
Eric Hughes
James Goldman

Second Assistant Director:
Kieron Phipps

Set Decoration:
Joanne Woollard

Songs:
Lionel Richie
Phil Collins

Sound Editor:
Don S. Walden
Joseph Holsen

Sound Mixer:
Clive Winter

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Don Digirolamo
Robert Knudson
Robert Glass

Special Effects:
Garth Inns
Ian Wingrove
Martin Gutteridge

Standby Carpenter:
Leslie Butterfield

Standby Painter:
Bill Fisher

Standby Property Master:
Denis Hopperton
Peter Benson

Standby Rigger:
Mel Sansom

Still Photographer:
Murray Close

Story:
James Goldman

Stunt Coordinator:
Peter Brayham

Stunts:
Steve Crawley
Robert Harman
Romo Gorrara
Malcolm Weaver
Dave Holland
Helen Caldwell

Supervising ADR Editor:
Doreen A. Dixon

Supervising Music Editor:
Curt Sobel

Supervising Sound Editor:
Tom McCarthy Jr.

Third Assistant Director:
Tony Aherne

Title Designer:
Dan Perri

Unit Manager:
Juhani Jotuni

Video Assist Operator:
Bob Bridges

Wardrobe Assistant:
Ken Crouch

Wardrobe Master:
Janet Tebrooke

Wardrobe Supervisor:
Ron Beck

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