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Sophie's Choice

7.3 151 mins Drama   Romance   War   1982
ITC Entertainment   Keith Barish Productions   Universal Pictures   Associated Film Distribution  
Director(s): Alan J. Pakula

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.

Casts of Sophie's Choice

Meryl Streep

as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski

Kevin Kline

as Nathan Landau

Peter MacNicol

as Stingo

Rita Karin

as Yetta

Josh Mostel

as Morris Fink

Robin Bartlett

as Lillian Grossman

Eugene Lipinski

as Polish Professor

John Rothman

as Librarian

Joseph Leon

as Dr. Blackstock

David Wohl

as English Teacher

Günther Maria Halmer

as Rudolf Höss

Karlheinz Hackl

as SS Doctor

Ulli Fessl

as Frau Höss

Moishe Rosenfeld

as Moishe Rosenblum

Greta Turken

as Leslie Lapidus

Marcell Rosenblatt

as Astrid Weinstein

Nina Polan

as Woman in English Class

Ivica Pajer

as Sophie's Father

Josef Sommer

as Narrator (voice)

Melanie Pianka

as Emmi Hoess

Cortez Nance Jr.

as Bellboy

Nedim Prohić

as Josef

Jennifer Lawn

as Sophie's Child

Adrian Kalitka

as Sophie's Child

Vida Jerman

as Female SS Guard

Michaela Karacic

as Sophie as a Child

Tobin Bell

as Reporter

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