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24 September 1980 (France)
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Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact...
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YouTube 'Alchemist' Makes Ballet Legend Dance
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(From newser. 22 June 2009, 5:44 PM, PDT)
Eleven Gay Historical Figures Worthy of the "Milk" Treatment
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sumptuous ballet film
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Alan Bates | ... | Sergei Diaghilev | |
| George De La Pena | ... | Vaslav Nijinsky | |
| Leslie Browne | ... | Romola de Pulsky | |
| Alan Badel | ... | Baron de Gunzburg | |
| Carla Fracci | ... | Tamara Karsavina | |
| Colin Blakely | ... | Vassili | |
| Ronald Pickup | ... | Igor Stravinsky | |
| Ronald Lacey | ... | Leon Bakst | |
| Vernon Dobtcheff | ... | Sergei Grigoriev | |
| Jeremy Irons | ... | Mikhail Fokine | |
| Frederick Jaeger | ... | Gabriel Astruc | |
| Anton Dolin | ... | Maestro Cecchetti | |
| Janet Suzman | ... | Emilia Marcus | |
| Stephan Chase | ... | Adolph Bolm | |
| Hetty Baynes | ... | Magda |
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UK:129 min
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'Ken Russell' was offered the chance to direct the film.
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Referenced in Fade to Black (1980)
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CARNAVAL
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This little-seen film by Herbert Ross chooses to focus on the rise and fall of Vaslav Nijinsky, petulant and superb dancer, and his stormy relationship with his producer-lover, Sergei Diaghilev. This story from with the heart of Ballet Russes has been well-documented before and here we see the descent into madness of a great, if unhinged artist.
George De La Pena plays the title role, and his dancing is a dream. Alan Bates is excellent as Diaghilev, all repressed passion and deep thoughts. The film tries its best to portray this unorthodox relationship with the ballet at its core, but doesn't quite get there - a sign of the times, perhaps? A strength of 'Nijinsky' is the dance sequences which are replicated as they would have originally been performed, right up to the scandalous performance of the Fawn piece. The scenes where the unhappy dancer is confined to an asylum have less power but are as valid as any other sequence in the film.