Sophie's Choice poster

Movie · 1982

Sophie's Choice

Released 8 December 1982 More from 1982 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

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.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Josef Sommer
as Narrator (voice)
48
Tobin Bell
as Reporter
40
John Rothman
as Librarian
33
Karlheinz Hackl
as SS Doctor
33
Robin Bartlett
as Lillian Grossman
31
David Wohl
as English Teacher
29
Peter MacNicol
as Stingo
28
Katharina Thalbach
as Wanda
28
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
20years between the oldest and youngest billed
48Josef Sommer — oldest on the call sheet
28Katharina Thalbach — youngest billed
34average age of the credited cast
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