Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
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.
- escape
- kgb
- tap dancing
- ballet
- airplane crash
- siberia
- emigrant
- bolshoi ballet
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko
Gregory Hines
Raymond Greenwood
Jerzy Skolimowski
Colonel Chaiko
Helen Mirren
Galina Ivanova
- Geraldine Page — Anne Wyatt
- Isabella Rossellini — Darya Greenwood
- John Glover — Wynn Scott
- Stefan Gryff — Captain Kirigin
- William Hootkins — Chuck Malarek
- Shane Rimmer — Ambassador Larry Smith
- Florence Faure — Ballerina (Death)
- David Savile — Pilot
- Ian Liston — Co-pilot
- Benny Young — Flight Engineer
- Hilary Drake — Stewardess #1
- Directed
- Taylor Hackford
- Written
- Eric Hughes, James Goldman
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 148 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, New Visions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
