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.

• DirectorAlan J. Pakula
• Release8 December 1982
• Genre
  Drama / Romance
• Duration2h 31m
• Budget$12,000,000
• Revenue$30,036,166
• Rate
  

  7.3
  898 reviews
• Productions

  ITC Entertainment, Keith Barish Productions