“Sophie's Choice” quotes
(1982)
Title Sophie's Choice
Year 1982
Director Alan J. Pakula
Genre Drama, Romance
Year 1982
Director Alan J. Pakula
Genre Drama, Romance
Plot – World War II has ended and Stingo leaves the army. He moves from Virginia to Brooklyn to find luck and rents a strange pink house. His quiet but fervent life is troubled by his stormy neighbors: Sophie Zanistowski, a Polish immigrant who is survived to Auschwitz, and Nathan Landau, an intellectual, brilliant and refined Jew quite obsessed with the Holocaust. They develop a strong friendship and Stingo gradually falls in love with Sophie. The girl confides him her father was a supporter of the Nazis and she has been deported to Auschwitz with her two sons.
All actors – Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Stephen D. Newman, Greta Turken, Josh Mostel, Marcell Rosenblatt, Moishe Rosenfeld, Robin Bartlett, Eugene Lipinski, John Rothman, Joseph Leon, David Wohl, Nina Polan, Alexander Sirotin, Armand Dahan, Joseph Tobin, Cortez Nance, Günther Maria Halmer, Karlheinz Hackl, Ulli Fessl, Melanie Pianka, Eugeniusz Priwieziencew, Krystyna Karkowska, Katharina Thalbach, Nedim Prohic, Jennifer Lawn, Adrian Kalitka, Peter Wegenbreth, Vida Jerman, Irena Hampel, Sandra Markota, Hrvoje Sostaric, Marko Zec, Ivica Pajer, Michaela Karacic, Josef Sommer, Bobby DeAngelo
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“I am six months in the... in here, in U.S., and so I eat more good now than in my life.”
“You spent the whole fucking afternoon with him, or should I say, you spent the whole afternoon fucking him.”
“How could I have failed to have the most helpless crush on such a generous mind and life-enlarging mentor. Nathan was utterly, fatally glamorous.”
“We'll go to that farm tomorrow. But please, Stingo, don't talk about marriage and children. It's enough that we'll go down there on that farm to live... for a while.”
“- Stingo: Sophie, I want to understand. I'd like to know the truth.
- Sophie: The truth does not make it easier to understand, you know. I mean, you think that you find out the truth about me, and then you'll understand me. And then you would forgive me for all those... for all my lies.”“- Sophie: You will mountains.
- Stingo: Right now I can't even move my tongue.”
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