Nijinsky

Nijinsky

🎞️ Movie 129 min US
โ˜… 6.5 /10 1980

Genius. Madman. Animal. God. Nijinsky.

Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier danseur and aspiring choreographer of the Ballets Russes. The company is managed by the famous Sergei Diaghilev, himself a controlling and fiercely possessive impresario. The increasing tension between these powerful egos, exacerbated by homosexual desire and jealousy, becomes triangular when the young ballerina Romola de Pulsky determinedly attempts to draw the increasingly mentally unstable Nijinsky away from Diaghilev,

Cast

Alan Bates
Alan Bates
Sergei Diaghilev
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George De La Pena
Vaslav Nijinsky
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Leslie Browne
Romola de Pulsky
Alan Badel
Alan Badel
Baron de Gunzburg
Carla Fracci
Carla Fracci
Tamara Karsavina
Colin Blakely
Colin Blakely
Vassili
Ronald Pickup
Ronald Pickup
Igor Stravinsky
Ronald Lacey
Ronald Lacey
Leon Bakst
Vernon Dobtcheff
Vernon Dobtcheff
Sergei Grigoriev
Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons
Mikhail Fokine
Douglas Slocombe
Douglas Slocombe
Cinematographer