Like a light in a dark night
| Movie | |
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| German title | Like a light in a dark night |
| Original title | Shining Through |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 133 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Seltzer |
| script | David Seltzer |
| production | Sandy Gallin, David Seltzer |
| music | Michael Kamen |
| camera | Jan de Bont |
| cut | Craig McKay |
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Like a light in a dark night is an American thriller by David Seltzer , based on the novel of the same name by Susan Isaacs , 1988. It was filmed in 1990/1991 with Michael Douglas , Melanie Griffith and Liam Neeson .
action
New York . During the Second World War , Queens- born secretary Linda Voss, who has Jewish-German ancestry, works for lawyer Ed Leland. This is well camouflaged, but Voss finds out that her boss works for the American secret services . She persuades him to send her on a mission to Germany. Voss is supposed to work as a domestic help for a German SS officer. After a mishap, she was released, but hired by Franz Otto Dietrich, who has a high position within the Wehrmacht . There she procures photos of a rocket factory in Peenemünde .
Voss is found out, but Leland gets her out of Nazi Germany. Voss and Leland later get married and have two children.
criticism
- film service 6/1992:
Naive, dramaturgically implausible spy agitator, annoying when dealing with the historical background. At most in terms of technical complexity above the level of relevant "anti-Nazi films".
- movieman.de:
The film has been researched so poorly that you can hardly get out of shaking your head in front of this ignorant American attitude: "It doesn't matter, nobody notices".
There is this concert that Karajan is supposed to conduct during the Second World War and then you see an 85-year-old old man at the podium, while Karajan was probably around 38 at the time, and Berlin's Alexanderplatz is a rural area with no more than two-story houses
background
The shooting took place in Potsdam and Berlin, among others. During the shoot in Potsdam, a house facade worth one million D-Marks that was specially built for this film was blown up for an action scene, but at that moment no camera was running. The dramatic final scene - which takes place at the border station "Altstätten" in Switzerland - was filmed at Maria Elend train station in Carinthia.
Awards
The film won the Golden Raspberry three times : worst actress (Melanie Griffith), worst director (David Seltzer), worst film (the producers). The film was nominated for two other categories: Michael Douglas for Worst Actor and Seltzer for Worst Screenplay.
Web links
- Shining Through the Internet Movie Database (English)