Nijinsky (1980)

Nijinsky (1980)
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.
Herbert Ross, Christopher Newman, Louise Jaffe, Ariel Levy, Timea Veress
Alan Bates, George de la Peña, Leslie Browne, Carla Fracci, Ronald Pickup, Ronald Lacey, Jeremy Irons, Vernon Dobtcheff, Janet Suzman, Colin Blakely, Siân Phillips, Frederick Jaeger, Alan Badel, Anton Dolin, Stephan Chase, Hetty Baynes, Charles Kay, Tomaso Milian Jr., Monica Mason, Valerie Aitken, Genesia Rosato, June Brown, Blaise Miller, Kim Miller, Jamie Rauch, Mart Crowley, Olga Lowe, Marcel Vaccard, Patricia Ruanne, Dudley von Loggenburg, Liliana Belfiore, Manola Asensio, Ben Van Cauwenbergh
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