Sophie's Choice (1982)
December 8, 1982
Drama, Romance, War
2h 31m


Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Alan J. Pakula
- 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
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Keywords
- new york city
- concentration camp
- holocaust (shoah)
- world war ii
- writer
- poland
- 1940s