Sophie's Choice poster
Screenplay Alan J. Pakula
Director Alan J. Pakula

Sophie's Choice

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

Release Date: 1982-12-08

Duration: 151 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Meryl Streep
    Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
  • Tobin Bell
    Reporter
  • Kevin Kline
    Nathan Landau
  • Peter MacNicol
    Stingo
  • John Rothman
    Librarian
  • Robin Bartlett
    Lillian Grossman
  • Josef Sommer
    Narrator (voice)
  • Katharina Thalbach
    Wanda
  • Eugene Lipinski
    Polish Professor
  • Ivica Pajer
    Sophie's Father