Nijinsky

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.

Cast for Nijinsky...

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
Siân Phillips
Lady Ripon
Frederick Jaeger
Gabriel Astruc
Alan Badel
Baron de Gunzburg
Anton Dolin
Maestro Cecchetti
Stephan Chase
Adolph Bolm
Charles Kay
Argentine Ambassador
Tomaso Milian Jr.
Young Boy on Beach
Monica Mason
Maria Piltz
Valerie Aitken
Lydia Nelidova
Genesia Rosato
Ludmilla Schollar
June Brown
Maria Stepanova
Kim Miller
Marie Rambert
Mart Crowley
Baron Adolphe De Meyer
Olga Lowe
Signora Cecchetti
Marcel Vaccard
Leon Myassin
Dudley von Loggenburg
Chief Polotsvian warrior
Liliana Belfiore
Polotsvian girl
Manola Asensio
Captive Persina princess