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Nijinsky (1980)

R | | Biography, Drama, Music | 21 March 1980 (USA)
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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... See full summary »

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Igor Stravinsky
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Leon Bakst
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Gabriel Astruc
Anton Dolin ...
Maestro Cecchetti
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Emilia Marcus
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Adolph Bolm
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Magda
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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, Written by Eric Wees <eric_wees@pch.gc.ca>

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Nijinsky - Uma História Real  »

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The name of the ballet company was the world renowned "Ballets Russes". See more »

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Referenced in Harry Saltzman: Showman (2000) See more »

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THE RITE OF SPRING
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Composed by Igor Stravinsky
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sketch
5 June 2013 | by – See all my reviews

a love story. not with profound roots. not very inspired. useful for colors of a form of homage. only as decoration for a story who remains charming only for its potential. a great potential of a dark subject. so, it is difficult to define it more than a film with George de la Pena and Alan Bates, a gay story and about a victim of his too great ambition. a film like an old jewel. or like drawing flower. interesting desire, seductive project and cages of common tools. and flavor of a world not always realistic. a movie about Nijinsky. not bad, not attractive. only isle of a form to conquer public. and remember of a ballet hero. is it enough ? maybe not.
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