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Genre
  
Directed by
  
Final episode date
  
20 September 1989

Production location
  
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Screenplay by
  
First episode date
  
17 September 1989

Network
  
TNT

Number of episodes
  
4

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Based on
  
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reichby William L. Shirer

Story by
  
Christian WilliamsBob Woodward

Starring
  
Sam WaterstonMarthe KellerKurtwood Smith

Cast
  
Frances Barber, Bill Bailey, Péter Benkő

Similar
  
Maschio latino cercasi, Shibuya, Una donna da guardare, Maladonna, That Other Woman

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

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It is also a 1989 American television miniseries directed by Anthony Page. It stars Sam Waterston as William Shirer, the American reporter who was stationed in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The supporting cast consists of 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 some limited versions of the series on DVD.

Cast

  • Sam Waterston as William L. Shirer
  • Marthe Keller as Tess Shirer
  • Kurtwood Smith as Joseph Goebbels
  • Ronald Pickup as Ernst Hanfstaengl
  • Peter Jeffrey as Norman Ebbutt
  • Frederick Jaeger as Wilfred Bade
  • Walter Gotell as Werner von Fritsch
  • Garrick Hagon as Edward R. Murrow
  • Michael Wolf as Hermann Göring
  • Frances Barber as Helga Bauer
  • Production

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

    References

    The Nightmare Years Wikipedia