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.

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

Credits

Taylor HackfordDirector

Mikhail BaryshnikovNikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko

Gregory HinesRaymond Greenwood

Jerzy SkolimowskiColonel Chaiko

Helen MirrenGalina Ivanova