The Alien Years is a three-part miniseries that first aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on 19 April 1988.
[3] Elizabeth Parsons (Victoria Longley) is the daughter of an important figure in the Australian government.
She falls for and ultimately marries Stefan (Christoph Waltz), a German national.
They move to South Australia to run a vineyard but their peace is disturbed by the outbreak of the First World War.
The series took three months to produce and was partly shot in Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills and Bethany in the Barossa Valley.