About the film
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Nijinsky
Release Date: March 20, 1980
| Year | : | 1980 |
| Slogan | : | «Genius. Madman. Animal. God. Nijinsky.» |
| Genres | : | Drama, Music, Romance |
| Production Companies | : | Hera Productions, Paramount |
| Director | : | Herbert Ross |
| Producers | : | Harry Saltzman, Stanley O'Toole, Howard Jeffrey, Hunt Downs, Nora Kaye, Al Burgess, Scott Wodehouse |
| Writers | : | Hugh Wheeler, Romola Nijinsky |
| RunTime | : | 129 mins. |
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.
Main Actors
Alan Bates
Character : Sergei Diaghilev
George de la Peña
Character : Vaslav Nijinsky
Leslie Browne
Character : Romola de Pulsky
Carla Fracci
Character : Tamara Karsavina
Ronald Pickup
Character : Igor Stravinsky
Ronald Lacey
Character : Leon Bakst
Jeremy Irons
Character : Mikhail Fokine
Vernon Dobtcheff
Character : Sergei Grigoriev
Janet Suzman
Character : Emilia Marcus
Colin Blakely
Character : Vassili
Siân Phillips
Character : Lady Ripon
Frederick Jaeger
Character : Gabriel Astruc
Alan Badel
Character : Baron de Gunzburg
Anton Dolin
Character : Maestro Cecchetti
Stephan Chase
Character : Adolph Bolm
Hetty Baynes
Character : Magda
Charles Kay
Character : Argentine Ambassador
Tomaso Milian Jr.
Character : Young Boy on Beach
Monica Mason
Character : Maria Piltz
Valerie Aitken
Character : Lydia Nelidova
Genesia Rosato
Character : Ludmilla Schollar
June Brown
Character : Maria Stepanova
Blaise Miller
Character : Lisi
Kim Miller
Character : Marie Rambert
Jamie Rauch
Character : Page
Mart Crowley
Character : Baron Adolphe De Meyer
Olga Lowe
Character : Signora Cecchetti
Marcel Vaccard
Character : Leon Myassin
Patricia Ruanne
Character : The doll
Dudley von Loggenburg
Character : Chief Polotsvian warrior
Liliana Belfiore
Character : Polotsvian girl
Manola Asensio
Character : Captive Persina princess
Ben Van Cauwenbergh
Character : Max Froman
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