Nijinsky (1980)

Directors

Herbert Ross

Cast

Alan Bates, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne, Carla Fracci, Ronald Pickup, Vernon Dobtcheff

The story

The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality. He became involved with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joined 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.

Genres

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