Sophie's Choice

Sophie's Choice

2h 31m 1982 Drama, Romance, War United Kingdom, United States of America
Budget: $12,000,000 Revenue: $30,036,166

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.

Director

Alan J. Pakula

Writer

Alan J. Pakula