Nijinsky (1980)

US:: R Drama Music Romance

The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joins impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes specifically to seduce Nijinsky. After a series of misunderstandings with Diaghilev, who is both his domineering mentor and possessive lover, Nijinsky succumbs to Romola's charms and marries her, after which his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to complete lunacy begins.

Updated May 27 2020

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1980-03-20

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jealousy male homosexuality ballet choreographer ballet russe mental desintegration

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Runtime: 129 mins Rating: 5.8 Tag Line: Genius. Madman. Animal. God. Nijinsky.

Cast

Vernon Dobtcheff

Sergei Grigoriev

Ronald Lacey

Leon Bakst

Siân Phillips

Lady Ripon

Colin Blakely

Vassili

Jeremy Irons

Mikhail Fokine

George de la Peña

Vaslav Nijinsky

Alan Bates

Sergei Diaghilev

Ronald Pickup

Igor Stravinsky

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