Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.
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.
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Cast
- Meryl StreepZofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
- Kevin KlineNathan Landau
- Peter MacNicolStingo
- Rita KarinYetta
- Stephen D. NewmanLarry
- Greta TurkenLeslie Lapidus
- Josh MostelMorris Fink
- Marcell RosenblattAstrid Weinstein
- Moishe RosenfeldMoishe Rosenblum
- Robin BartlettLillian Grossman
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- Alan J. PakulaDirector
- Alan J. PakulaScreenplay
- William StyronNovel
- Néstor AlmendrosDirector of Photography
- Marvin HamlischOriginal Music Composer
- Evan A. LottmanEditor
- Keith BarishProducer
- Alan J. PakulaProducer
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