Synopsis Several years after the World War II ended a young southern writer Stingo arrives to the New York neighborhood of Brooklyn and moves in a house. On the first floor of the house live a young Polish woman Sophie, who survived Auschwitz, and her partner, New York Jew Nathan, who claims to be a biologist with Harvard diploma. The relationship between Sophie and Nathan is very temperament due to Nathan’s occasional bounds, but Stingo becomes their best friend... With time Sophie and Stingo become closer and Nathan increasingly jealous. As she grows fonder of him, she begins telling him about her dreadful experience of Auschwitz.
Awards 1983 Academy Awards - Oscar, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Meryl Streep)
1983 Golden Globes - Golden Globe, Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (Meryl Streep)
1982 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - LAFCA Award/, Best Actress (Meryl Streep)
1982 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - NYFCC Award, Best Actress (Meryl Streep), Best Cinematographer
Directors Biography Alan Pakula (1928 – 1998) was an American film director, writer and producer. In 1962, he produced To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. In 1969, he directed his first feature, The Sterile Cuckoo. In 1971, Pakula released the first installment of what would informally come to be known as his ''paranoia trilogy" - Klute. This was followed in 1974 by The Parallax View and All the President's Men (1976). Pakula scored hit in 1982 with Sophie's Choice. Later commercial successes included Presumed Innocent (1990) and The Pelican Brief (1993).
Location and screening schedule: BUG cinema &TD, Friday, October 24th at 18.00
