Nijinsky (1980)

The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and selfenforced heterosexuality the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with Romola de Pulszky a society girl who joins impresario Sergei Diaghilevs 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 Romolas charms and marries her after which his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to complete lunacy begins