Shining Through (1992)

Regisseur:

David Seltzer

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Susan Isaacs (novel)
David Seltzer (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

31. Januar 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller | Drama | Romanze | Kriegsfilm

Werbezeile:

He needed to trust her with his secret. She had to trust him with her life.

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Flashback Sequence | German American | Law | Narration | New York

Filmpreise:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

An overlooked classic!

Besetzung

Michael Douglas	...	Ed Leland
Melanie Griffith	...	Linda Voss
Liam Neeson	...	Franze-Otto Dietrich
Joely Richardson	...	Margrete Von Eberstein
John Gielgud	...	Sunflower
Francis Guinan	...	Andrew Berringer
Patrick Winczewski	...	Fishmonger
Anthony Walters	...	Dietrich's Son
Victoria Shalet	...	Dietrich's Daughter
Sheila Allen	...	Olga Leiner, Margrete's Mother
Stanley Beard	...	Linda's Father
Sylvia Syms	...	Linda's Mother
Ronald Nitschke	...	Horst Drescher
Hansi Jochmann	...	Hedda Drescher
Peter Flechtner	...	S.S. Officer at Fish Market

Alternativ:

Wie ein Licht in dunkler Nacht (Österreich) (Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

132 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Rankcolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

2.20 : 1

Tonverfahren:

70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby SR (35 mm prints)

Altersfreigabe:

USA:R (certificate no. 31366) | Iceland:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Finland:K-12 | Germany:16 | Singapore:M18 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:15

Drehorte:

Austria

Firma:

Peter V. Miller Investment Corp.

Dies und das:

In this film, Liam Neeson works with his future sister-in-law, Joely Richardson.

Pannen:

Anachronismus: The Army Blue Uniform, which Leland wears during the dancing scene, was not adopted until 1 July 1957. Also officers in the United States Army did not wear Sam Browne belts after 1942, when the 'pink' khaki shirt and tie were adopted.

Dialogzitate:

Horst Drescher: [chewing raw dove] Delicious. Makes me feel like a volf.
[laughs]
Horst Drescher: [then gulps with a sick look on his face]

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt The Fighting 69th (1940)

Soundtrack:

(I've Got A Gal in) Kalamazoo

An overlooked classic!

This will be a very short review. As i write this, "Shining Through" only has 5.8 stars, and I am just flabberghasted. This is a very sad statement on the typical movie-goer, I guess.

I just watched this movie for the third or fourth time. It's clearly Melanie Griffiths finest performance, and just a perfect movie overall. It delivers the goods on many levels, is never boring, and always believable.

So, just to bump it up a hair, I give it TEN stars. (Realistically I'd give it an 8.5, but the rating badly needs to go up!)