Year: 1980
Running time: 129 min.
Country: United States United States
Director: Herbert Ross
Screenwriter: Hugh Wheeler. Book: Romola Nijinsky. Biography: Vaslav Nijinsky
Cast: Alan Bates · Sergei Diaghilev ; George De La Pena · Vaslav Nijinsky ; Leslie Browne · Romola de Pulsky ; Alan Badel · Baron de Gunzburg
Cinematography: Douglas Slocombe
Producer: Hera Productions, Paramount Pictures
Genre: Drama | Biography. Ballet. Dancing. Gay & Lesbian. Jealousy.
Synopsis: Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier danseur and aspiring choreographer of the Ballets Russes. The company is managed by the famous Sergei Diaghilev, himself a controlling and fiercely possessive impresario. The increasing tension between these powerful egos, exacerbated by homosexual desire and jealousy, becomes triangular when the young ballerina Romola de Pulsky determinedly attempts to draw the increasingly mentally unstable Nijinsky away from Diaghilev.
