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Nijinsky
RELEASED • 1980 • DRAMA • MUSIC • ROMANCE
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Original
movie
Rating
2
Language
English
Runtime
129m
Popularity
Trending Up
Overview
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.
Cast
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/aqorhHCrgICHKP4nAJK9IB4xGGa.jpg)
Alan Bates
Sergei Diaghilev
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/aYS5Fo1KeZFt8hbx2NDT20JCYQr.jpg)
George De La Pena
Vaslav Nijinsky
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/u1TWQ2dGJVFd94yoK5W4xDc1eW7.jpg)
Leslie Browne
Romola de Pulsky
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/x4ovmTfnuhfE2dVS5tKcdeDaoJz.jpg)
Carla Fracci
Tamara Karsavina
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9wJtlqBNPPa87UJDfLNnSNQRhEn.jpg)
Ronald Pickup
Igor Stravinsky
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/wrFU5EkxKIq0TpEBuKXzcRAld73.jpg)
Ronald Lacey
Leon Bakst
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Jeremy Irons
Mikhail Fokine
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Vernon Dobtcheff
Sergei Grigoriev
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Janet Suzman
Emilia Marcus
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/lXm7BsoFx50zPgajpzTMBBhsvpr.jpg)
Colin Blakely
Vassili
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