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<i>The Nightmare Years</i>

The Nightmare Years

American TV series or program

The Nightmare Years is a book by William L. Shirer, recounting his pre-WW2 years as a journalist in Nazi Germany. [1]

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It is also a 1989 American television miniseries directed by Anthony Page. It stars Sam Waterston as Shirer, the American reporter stationed in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The supporting cast comprises Marthe Keller, Kurtwood Smith, Ronald Pickup, Peter Jeffrey, Walter Gotell and Garrick Hagon.

The miniseries premiered on Turner Network Television on September 17, 1989 as a four-part miniseries and was later released on VHS. As of 2014, there are limited versions of the series on DVD.

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Production

Principal photography took place in Budapest, Hungary.[2] The production budget of the miniseries cost $12 million, of which TNT bought the television rights for $3 million.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    The Nightmare Years 1930-1940. Little, Brown and Company. January 1984. ISBN 978-0-316-78703-1.
  2. [2]
    Ladd, Patty (September 16, 1989). "TNT's first dramatic miniseries looks at pre-war Germany". Eugene Register-Guard (The Register-Guard). Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  3. [3]
    Salmas, Eileen Becker (August 15, 1989). "International co-productions: co-productions not only enable cable networks to amass more production money, they also enable creative collaboration. (includes related articles)". Cable Television Business. HighBeam Research. Retrieved February 3, 2016.[dead link]
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