Nijinsky

Nijinsky

129 mins | Drama, Romance, Music | March 20, 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.

Nijinsky

129 mins | Drama, Romance, Music | March 20, 1980

Nijinsky
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.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Paramount, Hera Productions
Original title Nijinsky
Directors Timea Veress, Ariel Levy, Louise Jaffe, Christopher Newman, Herbert Ross
Writers Romola Nijinsky, Hugh Wheeler

Cast

Alan Bates

as Sergei Diaghilev

George de la Peña

as Vaslav Nijinsky

Leslie Browne

as Romola de Pulsky

Carla Fracci

as Tamara Karsavina

Ronald Pickup

as Igor Stravinsky

Ronald Lacey

as Leon Bakst

Jeremy Irons

as Mikhail Fokine

Vernon Dobtcheff

as Sergei Grigoriev

Janet Suzman

as Emilia Marcus

Colin Blakely

as Vassili

Siân Phillips

as Lady Ripon

Frederick Jaeger

as Gabriel Astruc

Alan Badel

as Baron de Gunzburg

Anton Dolin

as Maestro Cecchetti

Stephan Chase

as Adolph Bolm

Hetty Baynes

as Magda

Charles Kay

as Argentine Ambassador

Tomaso Milian Jr.

as Young Boy on Beach

Monica Mason

as Maria Piltz

Valerie Aitken

as Lydia Nelidova

Genesia Rosato

as Ludmilla Schollar

June Brown

as Maria Stepanova

Blaise Miller

as Lisi

Kim Miller

as Marie Rambert

Jamie Rauch

as Page

Mart Crowley

as Baron Adolphe De Meyer

Olga Lowe

as Signora Cecchetti

Marcel Vaccard

as Leon Myassin

Patricia Ruanne

as The doll

Dudley von Loggenburg

as Chief Polotsvian warrior

Liliana Belfiore

as Polotsvian girl

Manola Asensio

as Captive Persina princess

Ben Van Cauwenbergh

as Max Froman