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Sophie's Choice (1982)
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
“Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.”
Drama, Romance · 2h 31m
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
Meryl Streep
Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
Kevin Kline
Nathan Landau
Peter MacNicol
Stingo
R
Rita Karin
Yetta
S
Stephen D. Newman
Larry
G
Greta Turken
Leslie Lapidus
Josh Mostel
Morris Fink
M
Marcell Rosenblatt
Astrid Weinstein
Moishe Rosenfeld
Moishe Rosenblum
Robin Bartlett
Lillian Grossman
Eugene Lipinski
Polish Professor
John Rothman
Librarian
Crew
- Director
- Alan J. Pakula
- Screenplay
- Alan J. Pakula
- Novel
- William Styron
- Director of Photography
- Néstor Almendros
- Original Music Composer
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Editor
- Evan A. Lottman
- Producer
- Keith Barish, Alan J. Pakula
Details
- Release date
- 1982-12-08
- Runtime
- 2h 31m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Czech, German, French, Polish, Russian, English
- Countries
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Production
- ITC Entertainment, Keith Barish Productions
- Budget
- $12,000,000
- Box office
- $30,036,166