Nijinsky (1980)

03/20/1980 2h 9m

Genius. Madman. Animal. God. Nijinsky.

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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.

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Cast Ages at Release

Alan Bates

as Sergei Diaghilev

Born 02/17/1934

Died 12/27/2003, age

Ronald Pickup

as Igor Stravinsky

Born 06/07/1940

Died 02/25/2021, age

Ronald Lacey

as Leon Bakst

Born 09/28/1935

Died 05/15/1991, age

Jeremy Irons

as Mikhail Fokine

Born 09/19/1948, age

Vernon Dobtcheff

as Sergei Grigoriev

Born 08/14/1934, age

Janet Suzman

as Emilia Marcus

Born 02/09/1939, age

Colin Blakely

as Vassili

Born 09/23/1930

Died 05/07/1987, age

Siân Phillips

as Lady Ripon

Born 05/14/1933, age

Alan Badel

as Baron de Gunzburg

Born 09/11/1923

Died 03/19/1982, age