Amerika (TV miniseries)
| Amerika | |
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| Written by | Donald Wrye |
| Starring |
Kris Kristofferson Robert Urich Wendy Hughes Sam Neill Cindy Pickett Dorian Harewood Armin Mueller-Stahl Richard Bradford Ivan Dixon Marcel Hillaire Ford Rainey Graham Beckel Reiner Schöne Mariel Hemingway Christine Lahti |
| Theme music composer | Basil Poledouris |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | John Lugar (co-producer) Richard L. O'Connor (producer) Donald Wrye (executive producer) |
| Cinematography | Hiro Narita |
| Editor(s) | Craig Bassett Raja Gosnell Dan Harville Jacque Elaine Toberen Martin Cohen Frank Mazzola Michael Ripps |
| Running time | 870 minutes |
| Production company(s) | ABC Circle Films |
| Distributor | ABC |
| Budget | US $40 million (est.) |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | February 15 – February 22, 1987 |
Amerika is an American television miniseries that was broadcast in 1987 on ABC. The miniseries inspired a novelization entitled Amerika: The Triumph of the American Spirit. Amerika starred Kris Kristofferson, Mariel Hemingway, Sam Neill, Robert Urich, and a 17-year-old Lara Flynn Boyle in her first major role. Amerika was about life in the United States after a bloodless takeover engineered by the Soviet Union. Not wanting to depict the actual takeover, ABC Entertainment president Brandon Stoddard set the miniseries ten years after the event, focusing on the demoralized American people a decade after the Soviet conquest. The intent, he later explained, was to explore the American spirit under such conditions, not to portray the conflict of the Soviet coup.
Described in promotional materials as "the most ambitious American miniseries ever created," Amerika aired for 14½ hours (including commercials) over seven nights (beginning February 15, 1987), and reportedly cost US$40 million to produce. The miniseries was filmed in the Golden Horseshoe and southwestern Ontario Canadian cities of Toronto, London, and Hamilton, as well as various locations in the U.S. state of Nebraska – most notably the small town of Tecumseh, which served as "Milford," the fictional setting for most of the series. Donald Wrye was the executive producer, director, and writer of Amerika, while composer Basil Poledouris scored the miniseries, ultimately recording (with the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra) eight hours of music – the equivalent of four feature films.
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