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About
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.
Theatrical
Mar 4, 1983
Box Office
$30.0M
Budget
$12.0M
Return
2.5x
DVD / Blu-ray
Apr 21, 1998
Theaters
1
Director
Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
ITC Entertainment, Keith Barish Productions
Quotes
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Quotes about Sophie's Choice
* ], in his review in The Chicago Sun-Times (1 January 1982)]
[[Roger Ebert]
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Sophie's Journey Through Painful Memories
Quotes about Sophie's Choice
We almost don't notice, at first, as Stingo's odyssey into adulthood is replaced, in the film, by Sophie's journey back into the painful memories of her past. The movie becomes an act of discovery, as the naive young American, his mind filled with notions of ], ], and ], becomes the ] of a ] who has seen so much ], death, and dishonor that the only way she can continue is by blotting out the ], and drinking and loving her way into temporary oblivion. … Sophie's Choice is a fine, absorbing, wonderfully acted, heartbreaking movie. It is about three people who are faced with a series of ], some frivolous, some tragic. As they flounder in the bewilderment of being human in an age of ], they become our friends, and we ] them.
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Cast
Full credits →M
Meryl Streep
Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
K
Kevin Kline
Nathan Landau
P
Peter MacNicol
Stingo
R
Rita Karin
Yetta
S
Stephen D. Newman
Larry
J
Josh Mostel
Morris Fink
M
Marcell Rosenblatt
Astrid Weinstein
M
Moishe Rosenfeld
Moishe Rosenblum
R
Robin Bartlett
Lillian Grossman
E
Eugene Lipinski
Polish Professor
J
John Rothman
Librarian
J
Joseph Leon
Dr. Blackstock
D
David Wohl
English Teacher
A
Armand Dahan
Man #2 in English Class
C
Cortez Nance Jr.
Bellboy
G
Günther Maria Halmer
Rudolf Höss
K
Karlheinz Hackl
SS Doctor
U
Ulli Fessl
Frau Höss
E
Eugeniusz Priwieziencew
Prisoner at Shower
K
Krystyna Karkowska
Prisoner-Housekeeper
