Sophie's Choice (film)
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| Directed by | Alan J. Pakula |
| Produced by | Alan J. Pakula Keith Barish William C. Gerrity Martin Starger |
| Screenplay by | Alan J. Pakula |
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Sophie's Choice by William Styron |
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| Narrated by | Josef Sommer |
| Music by | Marvin Hamlisch |
| Cinematography | Nestor Almendros |
| Edited by | Evan Lottman |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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151 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Polish German |
| Budget | $9 million |
| Box office | $30,036,000 |
Sophie's Choice is a 1982 American drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula, who adapted William Styron's novel Sophie's Choice. Meryl Streep stars as Sophie, a Polish immigrant who shares a boarding house in Brooklyn with her tempestuous lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline in his feature film debut), and a young writer, Stingo (Peter MacNicol).
Streep's performance was acclaimed, and she received the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film was nominated for Best Cinematography (Néstor Almendros), Costume Design (Albert Wolsky), Best Music (Marvin Hamlisch), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Alan J. Pakula).
British company ITC Entertainment produced the film, and Universal Pictures distributed and released it.
In 1947, Stingo relocates to Brooklyn in order to write a novel and is befriended by Sophie Zawistowski, a Polish immigrant, and her emotionally unstable lover, Nathan Landau.
One evening, Stingo learns from Sophie that she was married but her husband and her father were killed in a German work camp and that she was interned in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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