Sophie's Choice
Dec 08 1982
•3h 31m
•Drama, Romance, War
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
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Meryl Streep
Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
Kevin Kline
Nathan Landau
Peter MacNicol
Stingo
Rita Karin
Yetta
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