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Hugh Wheeler wrote a screenplay that explores the later life and career of Vaslav Nijinsky; it was based largely on the premier danseur's personal diaries (a bowdlerized 1936 version was edited and published by his wife, Romola de Pulszky), and her 1934 biography of Nijinsky, largely ghostwritten by Lincoln Kirstein, who later co-founded the ...
Mar 21, 1980 · Nijinsky: Directed by Herbert Ross. With Alan Bates, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne, Alan Badel. The story of Vaslav Nijinsky, who is widely believed to be one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time. Based on Romola Nijinsky's "Last Years Of Nijinski.
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- Biography, Drama, Music
- Herbert Ross
- 1980-03-21
Nijinsky (1980) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Nijinsky and his wife moved to St. Moritz, Switzerland, where he tried to recover from the stresses of the tour. Also in 1917, Bronia and Vaslav lost their older brother Stanislav, who died in a hospital in Petrograd .
Tragically, Bates lost his son Tristan to an asthma attack in 1990; and lost his wife, actress Victoria Ward, in 1992. This led to too few film roles for the next several years, although he remained quite active on stage and television.
- Herbert Ross
- Blaise Mills
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.
IN DECEMBER 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, at that time the most celebrated male dancer in the Western world, moved into a villa in St Moritz with his wife, Romola, and their three-year-old daughter,...
