White Nights Vladimir Visotskiy Koni Priviredlivije

[LeCutter]

The man is elegance personified.

[nefiseso]

Mükemmel !

[tierna1981]

this guy is goergeous. why is she crying

[Kindzadzaa]

@tierna1981 Because The lyrics of the song are tragical.

[tierna1981]

this guy is goergeous

[keyboardrtst]

You can find the original online if you are very persistent. Search until you find the name of the original album it is from. Then keep doing searches with varied spellings and you'll find the name of the entire album --> then on a file server somewhere. But this movie version is made out of that original recording. They sped it up, raised the pitch, and reordered phrases and sections. My search is finally over and I didn't know it for several weeks until I realized those changes.

[Pfaval]

OMG, he dances beautiful.. Ijust love him

[swastikausa]

the guy singing is vladimir vysotsky. Also a brillant russian actor. watch the meeting place cannot be changed

[LyndaHudson]

He is the most expressive dancer EVER. The pain and rage in this dance is almost unbearable for me to watch.

[chandlercanfly]

the passion is is incredible.

[Calsummersishere]

Russians are able to use the arts so effectively and so beautifully to show life, romance, passion, pain, etc. At times Russian culture amazes me. Russia should be allied with the West. It should be natural in this day for the Westerner and the Russian to be friends because we have so much in common.

[TourRoyale]

@Calsummersishere I agree completely. Our anscestors wiped fascism from the face of this earth together! God has kept our nations through our worst troubles. I look at the two countrys as allies, but we can be much, much, much closer. Last week US, Canada and Russia held anti-terror airforce drills together. I was born in Russia but live in America, and love both with all my heart. God bless our countrys.

[TourRoyale]

@Calsummersishere

An image that's inprinted into my mind is a page from LIFE magazine's special issue that came out recently called "Our Finest Hour". On page 114 and 115 is a photo of American and Russian soldiers walking, arms around each other's shoulders, down a street in Torgau, Germany after the two armies met at the Elbe River. The caption for the photograph reads: "Men of the 69th Infantry Division sat on the banks of the Elbe in the warm sunshine today with no enemy... (cont..)

[TourRoyale]

(cont..)

..in front or behind them and drank wine, congan and vodka while they listened to their new Russian friends play accordions and sing Russian songs... Russian soldiers are the most carefree bunch of screwballs that ever came together in the army. They would be best described as excatly like Americans- only twice as much.

-Andy Rooney,

The Stars and Stripes,

Aprils 28, 1945

[outed2]

Kalina reminds me of Mika Brazinski, nyet?

[yuli28rov]

I was trying to find the lyrics for this, but i cant find them, does anyone knows where i can get the lyrics???

[PFreddie88]

@yuli28rov

I tried to cut and past the lyrics, but they are too long. They are worth looking up!! The title of the song is "Fastidious Horses"  If you google that and word translation, you should get it. It's a song with a metaphor about how the horses pulling his sleigh are so fast and so dedicated to following his commands that that they pull him over the edge of an abyss, ending his life. Heavy stuff.

[ktdancemiami]

AWESOME MISHA!!

[ejacs2473]

genial que gran conbinacion Visotsky-Baryshnikov, gracias a youtube pude conocer al interprete de la musica que escuche en esa gran pelicula hsa ya unos 20 años, genial

[BoondockSaintsGrrl]

This piece is AMAZING! So much passion and power! He makes you share all the pain and anger that he feels in this scene. I have to say, Nureyev may have been the forerunner for the Russian ballet movement; but Baryshnikov broke the mold and crushed it into a fine dusty powder! No male ballet dancer has ever been able to come close! Such a beautiful human being!!!

[jkcarroll]

I know a man who was in Poland during the "Solidarity" revolution. He told me that before they went out on the last big march, his friends all gathered in an apartment to watch a bootleg/banned/illegal videotape of this movie. He didn't understand why, until he realized that this movie WAS their lives. It inspired them to do what everyone said was impossible: be free.

[elphagiva]

This is such an excellent film, and I'm so happy that was widely recognized in the US.

Happy they used Visotskiy too, Barishnikov is one hell of a dance to take on this song for a dance!

[hao7asakura]

he is just the best dancer in the world

[Orphe123]

Bloody Hell !! I don't know anything about this, but that was BRILLIANT.

[kxtone]

This is dance is with such emotion!!! This is the best part of the movie, I think anyway. Great Post!!! Love this dance and the exspression it deliver!!!

[ScooterMcBean]

I remember going into a well stocked alternative record store looking for any recordings by Visotsky. I couldn't remember his name but the sales guy wrote me off when I said it might be on the soundtrack of White Knights.

[morsile]

Baryshnikov made me wanna be a Ballet Dancer:) Luv this scene.

[roosaaremartin717]

so powerful

[RLamb96]

most beautiful. i will never forget first seeing this.

[rosae1978]

Vysotsky and Baryshnikov...two great talents in a film..i could watch forever...

[alrewyrn]

I could watch that man dance all day.

[headedsomewhere]

AMEN, doesn't he just take your breath away........

[skastezwa]

he is a genius

[Composer4guitar]

Wolnosc! Give me freedom or give me death!

[janetcecil]

dreamed of being a ballet dancer.

It was my dream to see Mikhail Baryshnikov perform when he came to Toronto to the O'keefe Centre. Is he still performing? He is an ikon for ballet lovers and followers. When they made him they broke the mold!

[elisa8ev]

How great dancer .... Passion and freedom!!!!

[urbanhide]

es una de las escenas de película que mas me ha calado... Un baile por la libertad.

[elyane46]

danse et musique formidables

[lamyia9988]

this one of the most memorable tracks of my life,such emotion,..such passion,

[nate196876]

A white dude with dance skills !

[leungchaan]

one of the most touching scenes in film history...

[timmytheviking]

Well.. That's nice! :]