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Sophie's Choice (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
151 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
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Movie filmed in 1982 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Alan J. Pakula

Written By:
William Styron
Alan J. Pakula

Actors:
Meryl Streep ..... Sophie
Kevin Kline ..... Nathan
Peter MacNicol ..... Stingo
Rita Karin ..... Yetta
Stephen D. Newman ..... Larry
Greta Turken ..... Leslie Lapidus
Josh Mostel ..... Morris Fink
Marcell Rosenblatt ..... Astrid Weinstein
Moishe Rosenfeld ..... Moishe Rosenblum
Robin Bartlett ..... Lillian Grossman
Eugene Lipinski ..... Polish Professor
John Rothman ..... Librarian
Joseph Leon ..... Dr. Blackstock
David Wohl ..... English Teacher
Nina Polan ..... Woman in English Class

Synopsis:

The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscar-winner Meryl Streep). There is something unsettling about the relationship; Nathan is subject to violent mood swings, while Sophie seems to be harboring a horrible secret. Stingo soons learns that both Nathan and Sophie are strangers to truth; the audience is likewise led down several garden paths by a series of sepia-toned flashbacks, depicting Sophie's ordeal in a wartime concentration camp. The scene in which we discover the facts behind Sophie's "choice" is a gut-wrenching one; it might have been even more powerful had not the film taken so long to get there. It is betraying nothing to reveal that the character of Stingo is the alter ego of William Styron, upon whose best-selling novel the film was based.

Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie's narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions.

Set in New York in 1974, about a Polish woman, survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, and her relationships with two men - her lover, a Jewish intellectual, and a young tyro writer from Virginia.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 07 November, 2013.