The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joins impresario Sergei Diaghilev's 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 Romola's charms and marries her, after which his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to complete lunacy begins.
| Directing | Herbert Ross | Director |
| Writing | Hugh Wheeler | Writer |
| Writing | Romola Nijinsky | Writer |
| Directing | Ariel Levy | Assistant Director |
| Production | Harry Saltzman | Executive Producer |
| Production | Nora Kaye | Producer |
| Production | Stanley O'Toole | Producer |
| Production | Howard Jeffrey | Associate Producer |
| Camera | Douglas Slocombe | Director of Photography |
| Editing | William Reynolds | Editor |
| Art | John Blezard | Art Direction |
| Art | Peter James | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alan Barrett | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Pat Hay | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Joan Hills | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Meinir Jones-Lewis | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ken Lintott | Makeup Designer |
| Production | Al Burgess | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Scott Wodehouse | Production Manager |
| Directing | Christopher Newman | Third Assistant Director |
| Directing | Timea Veress | First Assistant Director |
| Art | Michael Murchan | Construction Manager |
| Sound | William Hartman | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Godfrey Marks | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Theodore Soderberg | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Richard Sperber | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Cyril Swern | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Paul Wells | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Douglas O. Williams | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Colin Wood | Boom Operator |
| Camera | Bert Cann | Still Photographer |
| Lighting | Jack Coggins | Electrician |
| Camera | Danny Shelmerdine | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Chic Waterson | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Robin Vidgeon | Assistant Camera |
| Lighting | John Tythe | Gaffer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rosemary Burrows | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Austin Cooper | Wardrobe Master |
| Editing | Chris Barnes | Associate Editor |
| Editing | Michael E. Polakow | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | George Korngold | Music Editor |
| Sound | John Lanchbery | Conductor |
| Directing | Louise Jaffe | Script Supervisor |
| Production | Hunt Downs | Publicist |
| Crew | Mikhail Fokin | Choreographer |
| Crew | Lily Poyser | Unit Publicist |
