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Sophie's Choice
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.
1982 · Directed by Alan J. Pakula · 151 min · Drama · Romance · War · 20 frames
Tagline
Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.
Crew
- Screenplay: Alan J. Pakula
- Cinematography: Néstor Almendros
- Edited by: Evan A. Lottman
- Music: Marvin Hamlisch
- Production design: George Jenkins
- Produced by: Keith Barish, 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
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: Czech, German, French, Polish, Russian, English
- Studios: ITC Entertainment, Keith Barish Productions
- Budget: $12,000,000
- Box office: $30,036,166
- Themes: new york city, concentration camp, holocaust (shoah), world war ii, writer, poland, 1940s
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