NIJINSKY 1980 George De La Pena Alan Bates RICHARD AMSEL US 1-SHEET POSTER

Original U.S. 27 inch x 41 inch 1-Sheet Poster for the 1980 Herbert Ross Ballet Drama NIJINSKY, based on the book by Romola Nijinsky and starring Alan Bates as Sergei Diaghilev, George De La Pena as Vaslav Nijinsky, Leslie Browne, Alan Badel, Colin Blakely, Ronald Pickup as Igor Stravinsky, Ronald Lacey as Leon Bakst, Vernon Dobtcheff, Jeremy Irons as Mikhail Fokine, Janet Suzman and Siân Phillips.

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 ballet dancer and aspiring choreographer of the Ballets Russes. The company is managed by the famous Sergei Diaghilev, 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.

Poster art by Richard Amsel (1947 - 1985). An American illustrator and graphic designer. His career was prolific, including movie posters, album covers, and magazine covers

The poster is in very good folded condition.