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Sophie's Choice is a 1982 psychological drama directed and written by Alan J. Pakula, adapted from William Styron's 1979 novel of the same name. The film stars Meryl Streep as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowska, a Polish immigrant to America with a dark secret from her past who shares a boarding house in Brooklyn with her tempestuous lover ...
Apr 25, 2014 · A frightened Polish mother stands in line for the German concentration camps, holding her young daughter while her young son huddles closely against her. A rapacious Nazi officer makes some lurid...
“Sophie’s Choice” begins as a young Southerner's odyssey to the unimaginable North--to that strange land celebrated by his hero, Thomas Wolfe, who took the all-night train to New York with its riches, its women, and its romance.
Mar 4, 1983 · Sophie's Choice: Directed by Alan J. Pakula. With Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin. Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.
Stingo insists that they start a family, but Sophie has yet to tell him her final secret - her choice. She recounts the night she arrived at Auschwitz with her children, and of how a Nazi officer forced her to choose life for one child, and death for the other.
Sophie’s Choice, novel by William Styron, published in 1979, that examines the historical, moral, and psychological ramifications of the Holocaust through the tragic life of a Roman Catholic survivor of Auschwitz.
Not long after World War II, a novelist grows close to a mysterious woman who survived the Holocaust, but her secrets reveal an even deeper tragedy. Subtitles: English. Starring: Meryl Streep Kevin Kline Peter MacNicol Josh Mostel Rita Karin. Directed by: Alan J. Pakula.
Sophie's Choice may be more sobering than stirring, but Meryl Streep's Oscar-winning performance holds this postwar period drama together. Read Critics Reviews
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.
Sophie’s Choice. Directed by Alan J. Pakula • 1982 • United States, United Kingdom. Starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol. Meryl Streep cemented her reputation as the greatest actress of her generation with her indelible, Academy Award–winning portrayal of Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish Catholic Holocaust survivor haunted by ...
