Sophie's Choice

Trivia: The reason Sophie's small daughter looks so frightened, even before she's ripped from Sophie's arms, is because the little girl who played her was genuinely scared of the actor playing the Nazi officer who forces Sophie to make her choice.

Trivia: Meryl Streep could only bring herself to do one take of the choice scene, she begged the movie producers not to make her do it again.

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Mistakes

Continuity mistake: Meryl Streep as Sophie emotionally describes the loss of her children and rubs her eye, smudging her eyeliner which makes a small black line out to the side of her face. In the next shot, the smudge has disappeared.

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Quotes

Sophie: Stingo, you look... you look very nice, you're wearing your cocksucker.
Stingo: That's my "seersucker."

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