🎬151 min
📅1982-12-08
🎭Drama, Romance, War
⭐7.3/10
Overview
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.
Production
ITC Entertainment, Keith Barish Productions, Universal Pictures, Associated Film Distribution
Cast
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