Sophie's Choice (1982)

Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.

Movie · Drama, Romance · 2h 31m · Rated 7.3/10 on TMDB · Released December 8, 1982

Overview

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

Directed by Alan J. Pakula

Cast

• Meryl Streep as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
• Kevin Kline as Nathan Landau
• Peter MacNicol as Stingo
• Rita Karin as Yetta
• Stephen D. Newman as Larry
• Greta Turken as Leslie Lapidus
• Josh Mostel as Morris Fink
• Marcell Rosenblatt as Astrid Weinstein
• Moishe Rosenfeld as Moishe Rosenblum
• Robin Bartlett as Lillian Grossman
• Eugene Lipinski as Polish Professor
• John Rothman as Librarian

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