Centennial (miniseries)

The Colorado Saga is a historical epic that originated in American production and based on a novel by James Michener. The series consists of the original twelve television films of 90 minutes, which were designed as a mini - series - with the German broadcasting the episodes were divided so that you focus there is 24 episodes. She is busy with many well-known actors from the time when the series was born.

Action

The series is about the 200- year history of an area on the Platte River ( South Platte River) in the Rocky Mountains and begins after a journey through the history of the region as well as a chapter on the Arapaho Indians and their customs around the figure of Arapaho " Lame Beaver " finally in 1795, when the first white man this country settled in present-day Colorado, over a variety of different but related fictional storylines, embedded in actual contemporary events, up to the 1970s. In this period the settlement of the country falls by the French trappers Pasquinel and the Scottish merchant Alexander McKeag, the establishment of the ( fictional) town of Centennial by the Mennonite Levi Zendt, the battles against the resident Pawnee, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians by Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn, from the expulsion of the Indians resulted, as well as the stories of Pasquinels descendants to Paul Garrett, of the operated in the present against the businessman Morgan Wendell and through him fights exploitation of nature.

Book

The book Colorado Saga (English: Centennial ) by James Michener was published by the Bertelsmann Verlag (ISBN 3-570-02177-7 ).

Awards

For the Golden Globe for Best Television Series Colorado was nominated saga in 1980. In the same year Richard Chamberlain was nominated for the same award in the category Best TV actor.

Broadcast notes

The ARD began with the episode in Indian Country in July 1984 with the airing of the series, which was shown every Saturday at 16:45 clock. On German television, the series was repeated only once in 1986 by the Bavarian television before. A further broadcast took place in Austria in 1985 in the ORF.

Trivia

  • Colorado saga was aired as part of NBC's series The Big Event, in the already productions like Holocaust - were to see The History of the White family.
  • The mini- series is one of the longest and cost 25 million U.S. dollars.
  • It was almost entirely filmed at original locations in Colorado.
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