Le choix de Sophie

Titre original : Sophie's Choice

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Sophie est une survivante des camps de concentration nazis qui a trouvé une raison de vivre avec Nathan, un juif américain charmant mais instable, obsédé par l'Holocauste.Sophie est une survivante des camps de concentration nazis qui a trouvé une raison de vivre avec Nathan, un juif américain charmant mais instable, obsédé par l'Holocauste.Sophie est une survivante des camps de concentration nazis qui a trouvé une raison de vivre avec Nathan, un juif américain charmant mais instable, obsédé par l'Holocauste.

Réalisation
- Alan J. Pakula
Scénario
- William Styron
- Alan J. Pakula
Casting principal

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Réalisation
- Alan J. Pakula
Scénario
- William Styron
- Alan J. Pakula
Casting principal

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Récompensé par 1 Oscar
- 15 victoires et 14 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Meryl Streep not only learned a Polish accent but also learned how to speak German and Polish in order to have the proper accent of a Polish refugee. She reportedly learned Polish from one of the assistants working on the film who happened to speak it.

Gaffes
There was no Jewish ghetto in Cracow in 1938. Ghetto was established under German occupation in March 1941.

Citations
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...
[pause]
Sophie: 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.

Versions alternatives
CBS edited 12 minutes from this film for its 1986 network television premiere.

Connexions
Featured in At the Movies: Tootsie/The Verdict/Sophies Choice/Airplane II (1982)

Bandes originales
Jesu, Joy of Man s Desiring
(1723)
Written by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Lorin Hollander

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8/10

heart wrenching scene and superb acting

It's 1947. Stingo (Peter MacNicol) moves from the south to Brooklyn trying to be a writer. Sophie Zawistowski (Meryl Streep) and Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) are his amorous volatile couple and upstairs neighbors. She's Polish Catholic having survived Auschwitz and haunted by a heart-breaking secret. He works at Pfizer and is obsessed with the Nazis. The movie has long flashbacks that reveal Sophie's past and secrets.

It's a very slow moving movie at times. It meanders and teases for the first hour. It can get tedious at times. There are some interesting bits like Dickens and Leslie Lapidus. The three actors are superb but they can only hint at the final explosive reveal. The reveals are compelling bits of the puzzle. Streep is impeccable transitioning between the various languages. Kline does a good deteriorating personality. MacNicol gives a solid performance to give the audience a voice. Of course, the climatic scene is heart wrenching iconic cinematic history. The piercing girl's scream is devastating and it shows on Streep's face.