Sophie's Choice

IMDb link: 0084707
IMDb rating: 7.5 (56,868 votes)
Genres: Drama, Romance
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Cast: Meryl Streep, Peter MacNicol, Kevin Kline, Rita Karin and others

Release date: 4 Mar 1983
Release year: 1982
Runtime: 150 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Keywords: holocaust, double suicide, forced to choose between children, mother child separation, sadism, little girl, little boy, crying, flashback, writer

Plot:

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 Sophie is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story; from pre-war prosperity, to Auschwitz. As Stingo and Sophie grow closer, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels, and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

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