Nijinsky
Nijinsky
Overview
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
Alan Bates
George De La Pena
Leslie Browne
Carla Fracci
Ronald Pickup
Ronald Lacey
Jeremy Irons
Vernon Dobtcheff
Janet Suzman
Colin Blakely
Siân Phillips
Frederick Jaeger
Alan Badel
Anton Dolin
Stephan Chase
Hetty Baynes
Charles Kay
Tomaso Milian Jr.
Monica Mason
Valerie Aitken
Genesia Rosato
June Brown
Blaise Miller
Kim Miller
Jamie Rauch
Mart Crowley
Olga Lowe
Marcel Vaccard
Patricia Ruanne
Dudley von Loggenburg
Liliana Belfiore
Manola Asensio
Ben Van Cauwenbergh
Crew
Herbert Ross
Hugh Wheeler
Romola Nijinsky
Ariel Levy
Harry Saltzman
Nora Kaye
Stanley O'Toole
Howard Jeffrey
Douglas Slocombe
William Reynolds
John Blezard
Peter James
Alan Barrett
Pat Hay
Joan Hills
Meinir Jones-Lewis
Ken Lintott
Al Burgess
Scott Wodehouse
