
136 minutes
11/22/1985
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.

Mikhail Baryshnikov
as Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko

Gregory Hines
as Raymond Greenwood

Jerzy Skolimowski
as Colonel Chaiko

Helen Mirren
as Galina Ivanova

Geraldine Page
as Anne Wyatt

Isabella Rossellini
as Darya Greenwood

John Glover
as Wynn Scott

Stefan Gryff
as Captain Kirigin

William Hootkins
as Chuck Malarek

Shane Rimmer
as Ambassador Larry Smith

Florence Faure
as Ballerina (Death)
David Savile
as Pilot
Ian Liston
as Co-pilot

Benny Young
as Flight Engineer
Hilary Drake
as Stewardess #1
Megumi Shimanuki
as Stewardess #2

Daniel Benzali
as Dr. Asher
Maria Werlander
as Child Ballerina
Galina Pomerantzeva
as Dvornik
Sergei Rusakov
as KGB 1

Aleksandr Naumov
as KGB 2 (as Alexander Naumov)

Maryam D'Abo
as French Girlfriend
Marc Sinden
as Charles
Josephine Buchan
as Caroline
Helene Denbey
as Bess

Sussanah Morley
as Journalist in Opera House
Elisa Tornqvist
as Journalist at Consulate

Jiří Stanislav
as Chaiko’s Driver (Leningrad)
Edward Ochagavia
as KGB Agent
Marc Michalsky
as KGB Agent

Michael Petrovitch
as Helicopter Pilot
Andreas Markos
as Escamilla