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Sophie's Choice (1982)

Sophie's Choice (1982)

Drama Romance War

Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.

Release Date: 1982, December 8
Directors: Alan J. Pakula
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America
Production: ITC Entertainment, Keith Barish Productions
Cast: Meryl Streep, John Rothman, Tobin Bell, Robin Bartlett, Kevin Kline, David Wohl, Peter MacNicol, Eugene Lipinski, Josh Mostel, Katharina Thalbach, Josef Sommer, Marcell Rosenblatt

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

new york city world war ii 1940s writer concentration camp holocaust (shoah) poland