Sophie’s Choice

Brilliantly acted, heart wrenching account of a young writer, Stingo (Peter MacNicol) who befriends the couple in the upstairs apartment, Sophie and Nathan (Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline) in New York in 1947. Sophie has survived the horrors of Auschwitz and it is through her story that the naïve Stingo learns about the tragedies of a cruel and unjust world. Streep won an Oscar for her performance. Director: Alan Pakula., Brilliantly acted, heart wrenching account of a young writer, Stingo (Peter Macnicol) who befriends the couple in the upstairs apartment, Sophie and Nathan (Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline) in New York in 1947. Sophie has survived the horrors of Auschwitz and it is through her story that the naïve Stingo learns about the tragedies of a cruel and unjust world. Streep won an Oscar for her performance., In this film, set in 1947, aspiring author Stingo heads to New York. There he strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau and Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska. There is something unsettling about the relationship; Nathan has violent mood swings, while Sophie seems to be harboring a horrible secret., 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 Stengo, 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., Auschwitz survivor Sophie moves to New York to rebuild her life. While wary of her volatile lover Nathan, new neighbour Stingo falls for her as he learns about her terrible past. Haunting drama that earned an Oscar for Meryl Streep and provided an eye-catching movie debut for Kevin Kline., Harrowing, Oscar-winning story of a Holocaust survivor from Poland, her tortured lover and an aspiring writer in Brooklyn., Meryl Streep took the Oscar for acting in this powerful adaptation of William Styron’s bestselling novel of a survivor of the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp.