Sophie's Choice
“Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.”
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.
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Cast
42 people
Meryl Streep
Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
Known for
The Devil Wears Prada
The Post
Kevin Kline
Nathan Landau
Known for
Beauty and the Beast
The Road to El Dorado
Peter MacNicol
Stingo
Known for
Bean
Numb3rs
Rita Karin
Yetta
Known for
He Said, She Said
Stephen D. Newman
Larry
Known for
Hanky Panky
Greta Turken
Leslie Lapidus
Josh Mostel
Morris Fink
Known for
Billy Madison
Big Daddy
Marcell Rosenblatt
Astrid Weinstein
Known for
Playing for Time
Moishe Rosenfeld
Moishe Rosenblum
Known for
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Crossing Delancey
Robin Bartlett
Lillian Grossman
Known for
Shutter Island
Inside Llewyn Davis
Eugene Lipinski
Polish Professor
Known for
The Recruit
Alice
Néstor Almendros
Director of Photography
Alan J. Pakula Director · William Styron Author Marvin Hamlisch Composer
Worldwide gross $30M · Budget $12M · United States release December 8, 1982
Box office
Budget
$12,000,000
Worldwide gross
$30,036,166
Gross vs. budget
2.5×
Production
ITC Entertainment
Production
Keith Barish Productions
Production
Incorporated Television Company
Production
United Kingdom · United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Czech · English · French · German · Polish · Russian
Release dates
Canada · December 8, 1982
Theatrical
United States · December 8, 1982
Limited theatrical
United States
March 4, 1983 · Theatrical
Brazil
January 13, 1983 · Theatrical
Denmark
December 8, 1982 · Theatrical
France
December 8, 1982 · Theatrical
Germany
May 6, 1983 · Theatrical
Hungary
October 3, 1985 · Theatrical
Italy
May 6, 1983 · Theatrical
Japan
October 15, 1983 · Theatrical
Netherlands
April 21, 1983 · Theatrical
March 15, 2002 · TV · Net 5
September 3, 2007 · Physical · DVD
April 24, 2013 · Physical · Blu ray
Norway
December 8, 1982 · Theatrical
Portugal
August 25, 1983 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
April 14, 1983 · Theatrical
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