Sophie's Choice

Sophie's Choice1982

Director: Alan J. Pakula
Stars: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Stephen D. Newman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 150 minutes

The sunny streets of Brooklyn, just after World War II. A young would-be writer named Stingo (Peter MacNicol) shares a boarding house with beautiful Polish immigrant Sophie (Meryl Streep) and her tempestuous lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline); their friend… more »



Sophie:
My mother, she's very sick, you know. And I can't do anything. But I think — if only I could have got — that meat for my mother it would make her strong. So I go to the country and er... the peasants were selling ham and I buy it with the black market money and I bring it back. But it's forbidden, you know, because all the meat goes to the Germans. So I sat on the train and I hid it under my skirt, I am pretending that I am pregnant, you know? Oh I was so afraid. I was shaking. And then the German, was in front of the train and he saw me. So he come over and take under my skirt that ham and... So they sent me Auschwitz.

Stingo:
You were sent to Auschwitz because you stole a ham?

Sophie:
No, I was sent to Auschwitz because they saw that I was afraid.

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