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Sophie's Choice (1982) [R]

Release Date:
December 8, 1982

Original Title:
Sophie's Choice

Alternate Titles:
A Escolha de Sofia
La deicisión de Sophie
Sophie's Keuze
Sophiina volba
ソフィーの選択：1982
索菲的抉择
苏菲亚的选择
苏菲的选择
소피의 선택

Genres:
Drama | Romance | War

Production Companies:
Associated Film Distribution
ITC Entertainment
Keith Barish Productions
Universal Pictures

Production Countries:
United Kingdom | United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
BR: 14  DE: 16  FR: 12  GB: 15  HU: 16  JP: R18+  NL: 12  PT: M/12  US: R 

Runtime: 151

Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.

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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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American Film Institute (AFI)
2007
#91 		100 Years: 100 MOVIES — 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
100 Greatest American Films Of All Time

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Production

Art Direction:
John Jay Moore

Associate Producer:
William C. Gerrity

Casting:
Alixe Gordin

Costume Design:
Albert Wolsky

Director:
Alan J. Pakula

Director of Photography:
Néstor Almendros

Editor:
Evan A. Lottman

Executive Producer:
Martin Starger

Novel:
William Styron

Original Music Composer:
Marvin Hamlisch

Producer:
Keith Barish
Alan J. Pakula

Production Design:
George Jenkins

Screenplay:
Alan J. Pakula

Set Decoration:
Carol Joffe

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