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Shining Through (1992) 6.3
An American woman of Irish, Jewish-German parentage goes undercover in Nazi Germany. Director:David Seltzer |
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Ed Leland
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Linda Voss
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Franze-Otto Dietrich
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Margrete Von Eberstein
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Sunflower
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Andrew Berringer
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Patrick Winczewski | ... |
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Anthony Walters | ... |
Dietrich's Son
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Victoria Shalet | ... |
Dietrich's Daughter
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Sheila Allen | ... |
Olga Leiner, Margrete's Mother
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Stanley Beard | ... |
Linda's Father
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Linda's Mother
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Ronald Nitschke | ... |
Horst Drescher
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Hedda Drescher
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Peter Flechtner | ... |
S.S. Officer at Fish Market
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1940, Linda Voss is a woman of Irish, Jewish-German parentage who loves the movies, especially films about war and spies. She gets a job at a New York law firm, after it's revealed she can speak German, fluently. As secretary and translator to Ed Leland, she begins to suspect that her boss is involved in espionage work. The two become lovers, and when America officially joins the Allies in fighting Hitler, Linda volunteers to go undercover behind enemy lines. Written by L. Hamre
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He needed to trust her with his secret. She had to trust him with her life.Parents Guide:
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
31 January 1992 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Uma Luz na Escuridão See more »Box Office
Gross:
$21,733,781 (USA)Company Credits
Production Co:
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Sandollar Productions, Peter V. Miller Investment Corp. See more »
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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[laughs]
Horst Drescher: [then gulps with a sick look on his face]
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Written by Mack Kay
Performed by Dick Robertson
Courtesy of MCA Records
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Many of the lead actors are second-generation members of acting families. Joely Richardson is the daughter of Tony Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave, to whom Liam Neeson is also related by marriage. Michael Douglas is the son of Kirk Douglas. Melanie Griffith is the daughter of Tippi Hedren. John Gielgud is the nephew of theatrical actress Ellen Terry . See more »Goofs
When Leland finds Linda in the laundry basket, Ed and "Sunflower" clean her up, get her dressed, and give her a pill for the pain. Throughout this scene, she is fairly incoherent, and not wearing any gloves. In the train, Leland notices the bump in her glove and finds the microfilm hidden there. In the closing dialogue from the interview scene, Linda takes credit for hiding the microfilm in her glove based on another one of her pearls of wisdom from previous Hollywood war/espionage movies. That seems highly unlikely given her state in the earlier scene. See more »Quotes
Horst Drescher: [chewing raw dove] Delicious. Makes me feel like a volf.[laughs]
Horst Drescher: [then gulps with a sick look on his face]
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Goodbye Dear, I'll Be Back In A YearWritten by Mack Kay
Performed by Dick Robertson
Courtesy of MCA Records
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This was in many ways an enjoyable film, but the many historical inaccuracies and the lack of attention to details is inexcusable. I lived through WWII, but that experience was hardly needed in order to spot this script's many eminently avoidable historical flaws.
Writer/director David Seltzer must bear the blame here. This was not a low budget film, so hiring an historical adviser would surely have been a justifiable added cost. As it is, Shining Through comes close to being as implausible as any Star Trek film. That said, this movie had enough positive aspects to make it worthy of such criticism as I have leveled, but it could so easily have been a film to taken seriously.