Sophie's Choice
1982
Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
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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.
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- Director
- Alan J. Pakula
- Written by
- William Styron, Alan J. Pakula
- Produced by
- Alan J. Pakula, Keith Barish
- Composer
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Cinematographer
- Néstor Almendros
- Editor
- Evan A. Lottman
- Origin country
- United States
- Production countries
- United Kingdom, United States
- Runtime
- 2h 31m
- Language
- en
- Rating
- R
- TMDB
- 7.3/10 (952 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 74% Fresh
- Metacritic
- 68/100
- IMDb
- 7.5/10 (56,273 votes)
Awards
- NominatedAcademy Award— Best Adapted Screenplay(1983)
- NominatedAcademy Award— Best Cinematography(1983)
- NominatedAcademy Award— Best Original Score(1983)
- NominatedGolden Globe— Best Motion Picture – Drama(1982)
Cast
Meryl Streep
Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
Kevin Kline
Nathan Landau
Peter MacNicol
Stingo
Rita Karin
Yetta
Josh Mostel
Morris Fink
Robin Bartlett
Lillian Grossman
Eugene Lipinski
Polish Professor
John Rothman
Librarian
Joseph Leon
Dr. Blackstock
David Wohl
English Teacher
Günther Maria Halmer
Rudolf Höss
Karlheinz Hackl
SS Doctor
Ulli Fessl
Frau Höss
Katharina Thalbach
Wanda
Moishe Rosenfeld
Moishe Rosenblum
Stephen D. Newman
Larry
Greta Turken
Leslie Lapidus
Marcell Rosenblatt
Astrid Weinstein
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