Nijinsky

Genius. Madman. Animal. God. 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.

Alan Bates

Sergei Diaghilev

George De La Pena

Vaslav Nijinsky

Leslie Browne

Romola de Pulsky

Carla Fracci

Tamara Karsavina

Ronald Pickup

Igor Stravinsky

Ronald Lacey

Leon Bakst

Jeremy Irons

Mikhail Fokine

Vernon Dobtcheff

Sergei Grigoriev

Janet Suzman

Emilia Marcus

Colin Blakely

Vassili

Siân Phillips

Lady Ripon

Frederick Jaeger

Gabriel Astruc

Alan Badel

Baron de Gunzburg

Anton Dolin

Maestro Cecchetti

Stephan Chase

Adolph Bolm

Hetty Baynes

Magda

Charles Kay

Argentine Ambassador

Tomaso Milian Jr.

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