Sophies Entscheidung (1982)

Sophies Entscheidung: Directed by Alan J. Pakula. With Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin. Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.

“If the Oscars were to take every Best Actress winner ever — from Janet Gaynor to Helen Hunt — Meryl Streep would definitely have a good shot at winning against them. She gives a spellbinding, totally believable performance as Sophie, a timid Polish woman who befriends Stingo (Peter MacNicol), while she tells him of her tortured past in a concentration camp. As always, she does her foreign accent without fault, and puts her all in her performance, better than sheu0026#39;s ever done. The movie itself is very good, too — it may drag at times (at 2 1/2 hours), but definitely worth a look.”