Nijinsky

Title:

Nijinsky

Genres:

Drama , Music , Romance

Companies:

Hera Productions, Paramount

Countries:

United States of America

Release Date:

1980-03-20

Runtime:

129

Languages:

English

Status:

Released

Tagline:

Genius. Madman. Animal. God. 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.