Sophie's Choice (1982)

US:: R Drama Romance

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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1982-12-08

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new york city concentration camp holocaust (shoah) writer

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Runtime: 151 mins Revenue: $30,036,000 Budget: $12,000,000 Rating: 7.4 Tag Line: Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.

Cast

Meryl Streep

Sophie Zawistowski

Kevin Kline

Nathan Landau

Robin Bartlett

Lillian Grossman

Peter MacNicol

Stingo

Eugene Lipinski

Polish Professor

Josh Mostel

Morris Fink

Moishe Rosenfeld

Moishe Rosenblum

John Rothman

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