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Nijinsky (1980)
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.
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Writing:
Stars:
- Herbert Ross
Writing:
- Hugh Wheeler
- Romola Nijinsky
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Release Date: 1980-03-20
5.2/10
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- Country: US
- Language: English
- Runtime: 129
Igor Stravinsky
Sergei Grigoriev
Lady Ripon
Emilia Marcus
Leon Bakst
Vassili
Sergei Diaghilev
Vaslav Nijinsky
Romola de Pulsky
Tamara Karsavina
Mikhail Fokine
Gabriel Astruc
Baron de Gunzburg
Adolph Bolm
Argentine Ambassador
Ludmilla Schollar
Maria Stepanova
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