UNITED KINGDOM · 1982

Sophie's Choice

Alan J. Pakula
Holocaust trauma survivor guilt forbidden romance mental illness post-war displacement
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Synopsis

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.

Year1982
CountryUnited Kingdom
DirectorAlan J. Pakula
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