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1992 American World War II drama film which

was released to United States cinemas on January 31, 1992, written and directed

by David Seltzer and with Liam Gielgud in

supporting roles. It is based on the novel of the same name by Susan Isaacs.

The original music score was composed by Michael Kamen.

In the present (1992), elderly Linda Voss (Melanie

Griffith) is interviewed by a BBC documentary team about her

experiences before and during World War II.

She explains that, growing up in New York City as

a young woman of Irish/German Jewish parentage,

she always dreamed of visiting Berlin and finding her family members there. In

1940, Linda applies for a job as a secretary with a major law firm, but is

rejected because she did not graduate from a prestigious women's college. As

she leaves, however, Linda impresses the supervisor by demonstrating that she

speaks fluent German, and she is hired as a translator for Ed

Leland (Michael Douglas), a humorless attorney. She

soon becomes suspicious of his strange behavior and mysterious whereabouts, and

begins to suspect that he is actually a spy, and they eventually become lovers.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, when America joins

the war with the Allies, Ed emerges as a colonel in

the OSS. Linda accompanies him to Washington

D.C., but he is suddenly posted away, leaving her alone and

devastated. 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. Reluctant to resume their affair, he does re-employ her. Ed and his

colleagues need to replace a murdered agent in Berlin on

very short notice. Despite knowing little about intelligence work, Linda

volunteers and Ed is persuaded by her fluent German and passion to contribute

to the war effort. Her mission is to bring back data on the V-1 flying

bomb. Ed and Linda travel to Switzerland,

where he hands her over to master spy Konrad Friedrichs (John Gielgud),

who takes her by train across the border into Germany, to Berlin, where he

hides her in his house and introduces her to his niece, Margrete von Eberstein

(Joely Richardson), a socialite also working as

an Allied agent. Linda assumes the identity of Lina Albrecht, and is planted as

a cook in the household of Horst Drescher, a social-climbing Nazi officer, before

an important party he is throwing, but she arrives too late to prepare the food

properly, causing the dinner to be a disaster, and Drescher angrily fires her.

Walking dejectedly on the dark street, alone, after curfew, Linda chances to

encounter a guest from the dinner, officer Franze-Otto Dietrich (Liam Neeson),

who is charmed by her and mistakenly assumes she must already have had a

security check. Dietrich is a widower and takes Linda/"Lina" on as a

nanny to his two children. Between her duties as a servant, she searches

Dietrich's house for confidential papers on the V1, which he is also working

on. She intends to photograph them, but can find nothing. 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. Ed's agents identify

Dietrich as the man standing next to Linda in the film, and Ed heads to Germany

to rescue her. Because he does not speak German, he assumes the identity of a

wounded high-ranking German officer, who has had his throat injured and cannot

speak. He tracks down Linda and tells her she must leave with him immediately,

but Linda reveals that she has located her Jewish cousins, excitedly telling Ed

and Margrete how nearby they are. She demands Ed give her another day to visit

them and give them hope. The next day, with the children in her care, Linda

tracks down her relatives' hiding place in the city, but she finds it empty and

ransacked, they have just been captured. When an allied air raid suddenly hits,

Linda has to run for cover with the children and protect them, and when they

get back to the house, the frightened boy inadvertently reveals the existence

of a hidden room in Dietrich's basement. Linda sneaks down there that night and

finds and surreptitiously photographs Dietrich's top secret V-1 rocket

blueprints. Dietrich has fallen in love with Linda, and invites her to the

opera. While there, Linda's cover is blown when Margrete's mother recognizes

her, believing Linda to be a friend of her daughter's from college. Dietrich is

heartbroken and, once back at his house, Linda sees him loading his gun. Fearing

for her life, Linda flees across the city, still in her ballgown, and finds

sanctuary with Margrete. When Margrete thinks Linda is not looking, she uses

the phone to report in to her superiors, but Linda catches her. Margrete

reveals that she is a double agent, who betrayed the agent Linda

replaced, causing his death, and that she gave away the location of Linda's

Jewish cousins to the Gestapo. Margrete shoots Linda, wounding her, but they

struggle and Linda overpowers Margrete and kills her. Linda hides in the

laundry chute, escaping the German forces who raid Margrete's apartment. Badly

wounded, Linda is found by Ed and Friedrichs, who take her to the railway

station. Ed and Linda travel to the Swiss-German border. Linda is unconscious from

blood loss, barely alive, and Ed's travel papers have expired. Ed's mute act

fails to sway the border guards, forcing him to shoot his way out. Carrying

Linda, he struggles towards the border. The German sniper guarding

it shoots and wounds him twice, but he gets himself and Linda across before

collapsing. 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. Ed

then walks out to join the interview, and they reveal they have been happily

married ever since. 

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