Sophie's Choice
Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.
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Release Date
12/8/1982Runtime
151 minsOverview
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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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$12,000,000Revenue
$30,036,166Homepage
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A haunting portrait of survival and its aftermath, interweaving a young man's infatuation with a complex tragedy that shaped his neighbor's life. The film navigates between intimate present-day drama and the horrifying weight of the past with devastating emotional precision.
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Meryl Streep
Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
Kevin Kline
Nathan Landau
Peter MacNicol
Stingo
Rita Karin
Yetta
Josh Mostel
Morris Fink
Robin Bartlett
Lillian Grossman
Eugene Lipinski
Polish Professor
John Rothman
Librarian
Joseph Leon
Dr. Blackstock
David Wohl
English Teacher
Günther Maria Halmer
Rudolf Höss
Karlheinz Hackl
SS Doctor
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