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Sophie's Choice
Year:
Duration:
150 min | Canada:157 min (Ontario)
Genres:
Drama | Romance
IMDB rate:
7.7
Director:
Alan J. Pakula
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 12 wins & 11 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 1983-03-04
Filming Locations: Reiserovo castle, Samobor, Croatia
Earnings
Budget: $12,000,000
Opening Weekend: $202,131 (USA) (12 December 1982)
Gross: $19,962,353 (USA) (20 March 1983)
Cast
Actor
Character
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
Alexander Sirotin
Man #1 in English Class
Armand Dahan
Man #2 in English Class
Joseph Tobin
Reporter
Cortez Nance
Bellboy
Günther Maria Halmer
Rudolf Hoess
Karlheinz Hackl
SS Doctor
Ulli Fessl
Frau Hoess
Melanie Pianka
Emmi Hoess
Eugeniusz Priwieziencew
Prisoner at Shower
Krystyna Karkowska
Prisoner-Housekeeper
Katharina Thalbach
Wanda
Nedim Prohic
Josef (as Neddim Prohic)
Jennifer Lawn
Sophie's Child
Adrian Kalitka
Sophie's Child
Peter Wegenbreth
Hoess' Aide
Vida Jerman
Female SS Guard
Irena Hampel
German Child
Sandra Markota
German Child
Hrvoje Sostaric
German Child
Marko Zec
German Child
Ivica Pajer
Sophie's Father (as Ivo Pajer)
Michaela Karacic
Sophie as a Child
Josef Sommer
Narrator (voice)
Bobby DeAngelo
NYPD Photograper (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The quoted poem is "Ample make this Bed" by Emily Dickinson.
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Meryl Streep begged director Alan J. Pakula for this role literally on her hands and knees. Marthe Keller and Barbra Streisand both tried to win the role also but Pakula ultimately chose Streep.
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Meryl Streep's performance as Sophie Zawistowska is ranked #3 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.
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Goofs
When Nathan toasts Stingo on the bridge, as the shot pulls back you see first one then several cars from 1982, obviously an issue with how long they could hold up the bridge traffic for the shot, they needed to hold it up an extra minute or maybe lacked the budget to pay for late 40's cars to drive by instead.
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In one of the early scenes when Stingo is moving in he is carrying 3 cases of Spam on his shoulder. They barely move despite him writhing around to get the door open. When he gets into the room he drops them on the bed and you can clearly see most of the cans are glued to the cardboard. The actor even flips the top row over on the bed and they stay attached.
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Slavic surnames ending in -ski/-skiy are, in Slavic grammar, considered adjectives, and so the female form is -ska. Sophie's and Eva's surname should therefore be Zawistowska. Moreover, it is unlikely for Eva's name to be spelt with a 'v' as the proper Polish form is 'Ewa' ('v' does not appear in the Polish alphabet and is only used in foreign names and loanwords).
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Quotes
Nathan Landau: But I'm a biologist
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Nathan Landau: On this bridge on which so many great Americans writers stood and reached out for words to give America its voice... looking toward the land that gave them Whitman... from its Eastern edge dreamt his country's future and gave it words... on this span of which Thomas Wolfe and Hart Crane wrote, we welcome Stingo into that pantheon of the Gods... whose words are all we know of immortality. To Stingo!
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Nathan Landau: You spent the whole fucking afternoon with him, or should I say, you spent the whole afternoon fucking him.
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