![Nijinsky Poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500//313Iu6wq6d7RGFdkROnqpjYEroE.jpg)
Nijinsky
52.19%
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March 20, 1980
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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.
Featured Crew
Herbert Ross
Director
Hugh Wheeler
Writer
Romola Nijinsky
Writer
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Cast
![Alan Bates](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//aqorhHCrgICHKP4nAJK9IB4xGGa.jpg)
Alan Bates
Sergei Diaghilev
![George De La Pena](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//aYS5Fo1KeZFt8hbx2NDT20JCYQr.jpg)
George De La Pena
Vaslav Nijinsky
![Leslie Browne](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//u1TWQ2dGJVFd94yoK5W4xDc1eW7.jpg)
Leslie Browne
Romola de Pulsky
![Carla Fracci](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//x4ovmTfnuhfE2dVS5tKcdeDaoJz.jpg)
Carla Fracci
Tamara Karsavina
![Ronald Pickup](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//9wJtlqBNPPa87UJDfLNnSNQRhEn.jpg)
Ronald Pickup
Igor Stravinsky