Janis Deglis

HELENA
Logline: With a simple twist of fate from a snipers' bullet, two young lovers torn apart by war on different escape journeys are brought back together during WW2. This love story is interrupted by a stalking Russian female soldier HELENA thought she killed aboard a train only to find out she is alive and out for revenge. FULL SYNOPSIS: (WGA,east registered screenplay script) HELENA is a young woman who is forced to leave her home and country with her sister and her baby seeking safety and asylum away from a war torn country while her brothers fight in the underground trying to destroy Russian advances. They are running away on trains hopefully bound for freedom. HELENA is a survivor who quickly uses her bravery, wit, charm and sometimes force to survive. VLAD, is a young soldier who is stationed at the front line of an Army battalion as a radio man, who ends being shot by a sniper and left for dead. He was found dying by a group of soldiers in a field who rushed him to a hospital to get the needed care to save his life. After being pumped with the wrong blood type he still survives only to be later re-united with the love of his life, HELENA, who makes her away across the continent, to volunteer at a hospital in Germany where she unexpectedly finds her long lost love, Vlad. In the meantime, a Russian female soldier who was about to end HELENA's freedom aboard a train during her escape, was thought to be killed by Helena in a struggle to continue her journey only to find out that she had survived and is now stalking and seeking revenge many years later through Europe and then the US. But it was fate all along that created this story.

HELENA Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller / Suspense With a simple twist of fate from a snipers' bullet, two young war torn survivors are brought together during WW2. The love story is interrupted by a stalking Russian female soldier HELENA thought she killed aboard a train only to find out she is alive and out for revenge.