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Linda Voss, a New Yorker of Irish and German Jewish parentage, dreams of visiting relatives in Berlin and loves movies about war and spies. In 1940, after it emerges that she speaks German fluently, she is hired as a secretary and translator by Ed Leland, an attorney whose odd behavior makes her suspect he is involved in espionage. The two become lovers. When the United States joins the fight against Hitler, Linda volunteers to go undercover in Germany for the Office of Strategic Services, tasked with gathering intelligence on a German bomb and with finding out what became of her Jewish relatives in Berlin.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Shining Through (1992)
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- At the 13th Golden Raspberry Awards, Shining Through won Worst Picture, with Melanie Griffith voted Worst Actress and David Seltzer taking Worst Director.
- David Seltzer was to write and direct for Columbia Pictures with Debra Winger the likely star, and by late 1989 Meg Ryan and Michelle Pfeiffer were reported to be the top contenders for the lead role of Linda Voss.
- After permission was secured to shoot in East Germany, most of the film was made in Berlin and Potsdam from October 1990, just as Germany was being reunified, with studio work at the DEFA Studios, the state film studios of East Germany.
- Because all of Berlin's great train stations were destroyed in World War II, the production traveled over 100 miles to Leipzig at the end of October to shoot in the Leipzig Hauptbahnhof terminus, built in 1915 and the largest in Europe.
- Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson lists the film in his book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.
