Sophie's Choice

Release date: 1982-12-08
Runtime: 151
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Budget: $12,000,000

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.

Director: Alan J. Pakula

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Cast: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Josh Mostel, Robin Bartlett, Eugene Lipinski, John Rothman, Joseph Leon, David Wohl