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
