![Nijinsky](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original//k2SWhADSpwIGTRRW0vetWL3G1y3.jpg)
![Nijinsky](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//313Iu6wq6d7RGFdkROnqpjYEroE.jpg)
Nijinsky
2 hours 9 minutes1980-03-20
5.2
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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](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//aqorhHCrgICHKP4nAJK9IB4xGGa.jpg)
Alan Bates
Sergei Diaghilev
![George De La Pena](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//aYS5Fo1KeZFt8hbx2NDT20JCYQr.jpg)
George De La Pena
Vaslav Nijinsky
![Leslie Browne](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//u1TWQ2dGJVFd94yoK5W4xDc1eW7.jpg)
Leslie Browne
Romola de Pulsky
![Carla Fracci](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//x4ovmTfnuhfE2dVS5tKcdeDaoJz.jpg)
Carla Fracci
Tamara Karsavina
![Ronald Pickup](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//9wJtlqBNPPa87UJDfLNnSNQRhEn.jpg)
Ronald Pickup
Igor Stravinsky
![Ronald Lacey](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//wrFU5EkxKIq0TpEBuKXzcRAld73.jpg)
Ronald Lacey
Leon Bakst
![Jeremy Irons](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//w8Ct1q02Ht3sWdOSqfp3B85TzT.jpg)
Jeremy Irons
Mikhail Fokine
![Vernon Dobtcheff](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//o3zjo0Q8BDJQFqHMIIaFbUnckBY.jpg)
Vernon Dobtcheff
Sergei Grigoriev
![Janet Suzman](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//5H1cxIbRuIlpqOxU1rsGAetrsyi.jpg)
Janet Suzman
Emilia Marcus
![Colin Blakely](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//lXm7BsoFx50zPgajpzTMBBhsvpr.jpg)
Colin Blakely
Vassili
![Siân Phillips](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//k2OIQZUWLTlZYfHjpS5X8csYbSY.jpg)
Siân Phillips
Lady Ripon
![Frederick Jaeger](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//5EBfbFVyCa3cYDp2bj7ENC71h1k.jpg)
Frederick Jaeger
Gabriel Astruc
![Alan Badel](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//3cRgBUd9ktS8kB6IIdNkU29FgJM.jpg)
Alan Badel
Baron de Gunzburg
![Anton Dolin](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Anton Dolin
Maestro Cecchetti
![Stephan Chase](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//6OYHrDkTyRmF2jVxhuPYXVTXmUb.jpg)
Stephan Chase
Adolph Bolm
![Hetty Baynes](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Hetty Baynes
Magda
![Charles Kay](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//itrjpPBP313mCdyk86YPLmBMPqZ.jpg)
Charles Kay
Argentine Ambassador
![Tomaso Milian Jr.](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Tomaso Milian Jr.
Young Boy on Beach
![Monica Mason](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Monica Mason
Maria Piltz
![Valerie Aitken](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Valerie Aitken
Lydia Nelidova
![Genesia Rosato](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//fkhkfR1jwz6kuPRfv6Nmr52s88m.jpg)
Genesia Rosato
Ludmilla Schollar
![June Brown](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//b4fkSiIkFPQceP8ycDaiTKNNpdi.jpg)
June Brown
Maria Stepanova
![Blaise Miller](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Blaise Miller
Lisi
![Kim Miller](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Kim Miller
Marie Rambert
![Jamie Rauch](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Jamie Rauch
Page
![Mart Crowley](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Mart Crowley
Baron Adolphe De Meyer
![Olga Lowe](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Olga Lowe
Signora Cecchetti
![Marcel Vaccard](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Marcel Vaccard
Leon Myassin
![Patricia Ruanne](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Patricia Ruanne
The doll
![Dudley von Loggenburg](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Dudley von Loggenburg
Chief Polotsvian warrior
![Liliana Belfiore](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Liliana Belfiore
Polotsvian girl
![Manola Asensio](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Manola Asensio
Captive Persina princess
![Ben Van Cauwenbergh](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Ben Van Cauwenbergh
Max Froman
![Barrie Holland](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)