Shining Through

Shining Through is a 1992 BritishAmerican World War II drama film written and directed by David Seltzer and starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith, with Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson and John Gielgud in supporting roles. Although based on the novel of the same name by Susan Isaacs, the films plot and characters are considerably different. The original music score was composed by Michael Kamen. The films tagline is He needed to trust her with his secret. She had to trust him with her life.

Because she can speak German fluently, she becomes translator to Ed Leland Michael Douglas, a humourless attorney, who is referred to as the pallbearer by his peers due to his lack of humor. She gradually comes to suspect that he hides dark secrets. She is proven right when, after America officially joins forces with the Allies, he emerges as a colonel in the OSS. She accompanies him to confidential meetings in New York and Washington D.C., and before long, they become lovers. When he is suddenly posted away, she is left alone and devastated. Assigned to work in the War Department, Linda longs for and hears nothing of Ed until one evening as she sat on her own in a local restaurantbar he reappears as suddenly as he left with an attractive female officer. Reluctant to resume their affair, he does reemploy her.He and his colleagues abruptly need to replace a murdered agent in Berlin at very short notice. Despite knowing little about intelligence work only what shes seen in movies Linda volunteers and Ed allows himself to be persuaded by her fluent German and passion to contribute to the war effort, not to mention her skills in reproducing Germanbased dishes, as proven by her banging on his front door in the middle of the night and getting him to taste her German Kompot. Her mission is to bring back data on the V1 flying bomb. They travel to Switzerland, where he hands her over to master spy Konrad Friedrichs, codenamed Sunflower John Gielgud. Despite being appalled at her dialect the accent of a Berlin butchers wife, he installs her in the basement of his Berlin mansion and introduces her to his niece, Margarete von Eberstein Joely Richardson, a socialite also working as an Allied agent. ........

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