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REST IN WAR (TV SERIES)
By Amanda Alencar
"During the Nazi occupation of Poland, a resistance fighter is torn from her family and
sent to a concentration camp. Meanwhile, a young German officer, raised under the
Reich’s ideology, begins to question everything he believed. As their paths collide in a
brutal war, both must decide whether to fight for survival or for something greater."
SYNOPSIS:
"Rest In War is a gripping four-season historical drama set in the darkest days of World War II,
exploring the blurred lines between morality, survival, and human transformation. At its
core, it follows a Polish resistance fighter, Lena Kowalski, who is torn from her family
and sent to Auschwitz. There, she crosses paths with Thomas Schauren, a young Nazi
officer raised under the Reich’s ideology, who slowly begins to question everything he
was taught.
As war consumes everything around them, both are faced with impossible choices: to
betray their beliefs, to fight for survival, or to surrender to the ghosts of their past. In a
world where humanity is stripped away, can love exist? And if it does… what price
must be paid?"
REST IN WAR (TV SERIES)
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Hi Amanda,
Two things:
(1) Cut the scene numbers in your screenplay, that's only for production screenplays, not specs.
(2) When a sentence cuts off, the 'white margin' in between is too big; like this, your whole screenplay becomes a blur. Check your margins in your screenwriting sofwarre and readjust.
Best, Rutger
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Rutger Oosterhoff Hi Rutger,
Thank you so much for your thoughtful feedback. I truly appreciate it!
I wasn’t aware of the scene numbers being an issue in spec scripts, but I’ll make sure to remove them moving forward. Also, I’ll double-check the formatting and margins to make the script easier to read.
Your advice means a lot, thank you again for taking the time!
Best,
Amanda.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to read and rate my logline.
I really appreciate it!
All the best,
Amanda.
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Can't wait to see this Amanda Alencar.
Leonardo Ramirez Thank you so much Leonardo for taking the time to read and rate my logline.
I'm so glad you liked it.
I have to confess, it's a dream of mine to one day see this project come alive on screen.
All the best,
Amanda.
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Amanda Alencar This sounds incredibly emotionally heavy and morally complex, which is probably essential for a story set during this period. What stands out most is that the series seems less interested in simplifying people into heroes and villains and more interested in exploring how ideology, fear, survival, guilt, and humanity collide under extreme conditions.
The dynamic between Lena and Thomas especially creates difficult dramatic tension because it forces the audience into uncomfortable emotional territory. A story like this only works if it treats the historical reality with seriousness and emotional honesty, and from your synopsis it feels like that’s the intention.
I also think the idea of transformation is central here. Not transformation in a romanticized sense, but in the sense of war dismantling identities people once believed were permanent. That’s where stories set during WWII often become most powerful when they examine how systems reshape ordinary human beings.
And honestly, the question “can love exist in a world where humanity is stripped away?” is probably less about romance and more about whether compassion, conscience, and moral courage can survive brutality at all.
A four-season structure also gives the story room to explore psychological evolution over time rather than rushing through those changes superficially.
Amanda, I read to pages 17, I think you have something here, but the screenplay is still in the very early stages, right now it is completally overwritten, if a pro would rewrite this it would be 50 pages max; I think you need a writing partner, or must have the ability to learn very fast end imprison you ego in the deepest dungeon; we can do a call to go through the first pages, but after that you're on your own. Then again, having seen about all holocaust movies, and knowing most of the holocaust players, I think there is a marked for this, just not in this form.