Sophie's Choice
Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.
7.3 / 10
151 minutes
1982-12-08
Czech
GB
Actors :
Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Josh Mostel, Robin Bartlett, Eugene Lipinski, John Rothman, Joseph Leon, David Wohl, Günther Maria Halmer, Karlheinz Hackl, Ulli Fessl, Katharina Thalbach, Moishe Rosenfeld
Description
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.