Sophie's Choice
Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.
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- Drama
- Romance
- War
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.
Keywords
- new york city
- 1940s
- world war ii
- writer
- concentration camp
- holocaust (shoah)
- poland
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 8, 1982
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- Czech, German, French, Polish, Russian, English
- Countries
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Cast
- Meryl Streep,Kevin Kline,Peter MacNicol,Rita Karin,Stephen D. Newman,Greta Turken,Josh Mostel,Marcell Rosenblatt,Moishe Rosenfeld,Robin Bartlettand 29 more
- Director
- Alan J. Pakula
- Writer
- Alan J. Pakula,William Styron
- Producer
- Martin Starger,Keith Barish,Alan J. Pakula
- Cinematography
- Néstor Almendros
- Music
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Budget
- $12,000,000
- Revenue
- $30,036,166
- IMDb
- tt0084707