Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights'

00:00:00 You're here now. Face it. Make the best of it.

00:00:14 I'm gonna do something right this time.

00:00:27 ...and immediately called Misha "Mike."

00:00:42 ...but ran-down. They give us big menus...

00:01:00 ...great dancers dancing together.

00:01:17 And to me, it's the high point of the film.

00:01:32 ...that was going to challenge them and they didn't shrink from that.

00:01:53 And within that he had this shining light...

00:02:07 ...I think would be a fallacy.

00:02:23 ...it was an open country.

00:02:41 ...but now we know, now that the Wall has come down...

00:02:58 ...might be better than the place he's from.

00:03:14 Generally, by the time you are 30, you are finished with that career.

00:03:40 I remember that for me...

00:04:10 -Are you crazy? It will be suicide. -Listen.

00:04:34 But why are we speaking Russian?

00:04:58 Misha was nominated for an Academy Award...

00:05:24 ...and his confidante.

00:05:50 I love my country. I love Russia. I love what Russia represents.

00:06:14 Because we could not shoot inside Russia with Baryshnikov.

00:06:36 l was taken in great secrecy backstage at the Kirov...

00:07:15 Anyone from Russia looking at it couldn't believe it.

00:08:07 To have a shot that moves but can anticipate the dancer's moves...

00:09:08 ...a woman of colour who was Russian.