FILM · 1992 · UK
Shining Through
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8 Interesting Facts About Shining Through
- #001
A $500,000 building in Berlin was constructed to be blown up during an action scene. No cameras were running while it was done.
- #002
Most of the Nazi SS men in the film were US soldiers from the Berlin Brigade.
- #003
On The Graham Norton Show, Liam Neeson revealed that Melanie Griffith would spin her daughter Dakota Johnson around and that he played with her on the set of Shining Through.
- #005
Liam Neeson worked with his future sister-in-law Joely Richardson.
- #007
In the living room, as Linda and her father read a letter from their endangered aunts and cousins in Berlin, the music on the phonograph is Robert Schumann's "Kinderszenen" (Scenes from Childhood), Opus 15.
- #009
Liam Neeson also plays a Nazi party member in Schindler's List (1993).
- #010
The film won the Worst Film award at the Hastings Bad Cinema Society's 15th Stinkers Bad Film Awards in 1992.
- #011
It was Juliet Aubrey's debut.
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