Shining Through is a 1992 American World War II drama film which was released to United States cinemas on January 31, 1992,[2] written and directed by David Seltzer and starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith, with Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson and John Gielgud in supporting roles.

She explains that, growing up in New York City as a young woman of mixed Irish/German Jewish parentage, she always dreamed of visiting Berlin and finding her family members there.

As she leaves, however, Linda impresses the supervisor by demonstrating that she speaks fluent German, and is hired as a translator for Ed Leland, a humorless attorney.

Assigned to work in the War Department, she hears nothing of Ed until one evening in a night club, when he reappears with an attractive female officer.

Despite knowing little about intelligence work, except from movies, Linda volunteers and Ed is persuaded by her fluent German and passion to contribute to the war effort.

Ed and Linda travel to Switzerland, where he hands her over to elderly master spy Konrad Friedrichs, who takes her into Germany by train.

He hides her in his house in Berlin and introduces her to his niece, Margrete von Eberstein, a socialite also working as an Allied agent.

Linda assumes the identity of Lina Albrecht, a cook planted in the household of Horst Drescher, a social-climbing Nazi officer.

Walking dejectedly on a dark street, alone and after curfew, Linda bumps into a guest from the dinner, officer Franze-Otto Dietrich, who is charmed by her and mistakenly believes she already had a Gestapo security check.

Meanwhile, Ed, sick with worry about Linda since her disappearance from Drescher's party, suddenly chances to see her in a newsreel of Hitler in a parade in Berlin.

The next day, with the children in her care, Linda tracks down her relatives' hiding place in the city, but finds it empty and ransacked, as they have just been captured.

Back in the present, Linda reveals that while she and Ed recovered from their injuries in a Swiss hospital, the microfilm of the secret German documents was retrieved from a hiding place inside her glove, and the Allies successfully bombed the V1 installation.

[6] The finale, set at a border crossing and involving a period train, was shot in Maria Elend, Carinthia, Austria, in November 1990.

[10] Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times, "I know it's only a movie, and so perhaps I should be willing to suspend my disbelief, but Shining Through is such an insult to the intelligence that I wasn't able to do that.