Sophie's Choice

Dec 8, 1982

2h 31m

★ 7.3

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

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.

Genres

Drama

Romance

War

Production Companies

ITC Entertainment

Keith Barish Productions

Universal Pictures

Associated Film Distribution

Sophie's Choice Trailers

Cast

Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski

Meryl Streep

Nathan Landau

Kevin Kline

Stingo

Peter MacNicol

Yetta

Rita Karin

Morris Fink

Josh Mostel

Lillian Grossman

Robin Bartlett

Polish Professor

Eugene Lipinski

Librarian

John Rothman

Dr. Blackstock

Joseph Leon

English Teacher

David Wohl

Rudolf Höss

Günther Maria Halmer

SS Doctor

Karlheinz Hackl

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