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.

Written by allbestmovies

Cast

Alan Bates

George De La Pena

Jeremy Irons

Leslie Browne

Alan Badel

Carla Fracci

Colin Blakely

Ronald Pickup

Ronald Lacey

Vernon Dobtcheff

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