Old Soldiers

This script was just chosen as Runner-Up, Best Original Screenplay, at the White Rose Film Festival in Dublin, Ireland!
An elderly English couple leaves for a vacation on the island of Mallorca, Spain. They meet a German couple also on vacation there, and they strike up a friendship.
The two couples have adventures together on the island, sightseeing, going to clubs and restaurants and sailing.
They get close enough that the men and the women share some personal things together, and find they are not as different as they might have thought. Both men are veterans of World War II, and both women have been devoted wives and mothers.
Drama ensues when they find their pasts are tied together due to some secrets from long ago involving both men's experiences in the war. This a period piece set in the late 1990s.

  • David Carl Raymer
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Number of Pages:
    91
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Switzerland Film and Screenplay Festival
    Switzerland
    August 29, 2023
    Best Screenplay Feature Drama
  • White Rose Film Festival
    Dublin, Ireland
    November 4, 2023
    2nd Place, Best Original Screenplay
Writer Biography - David Carl Raymer

David Raymer studied English Literature at the University of California, Davis, and had further education at UCLA's Film Extension school in TV and Film writing and development.
He worked for Fries Entertainment in Hollywood and NBC television in Burbank. He also has experience writing and helping produce industrial videos for the US Navy and Air Force.
He now lives and works as a chiropractor in Phoenix, Arizona. He lived with his wife and two sons in the USA, but also Germany and Holland for 12 years which shaped his views of the world and was the inspiration for several of his screenplays. David recently was chosen as a finalist for the Courage Film Festival in Berlin, Germany in the best Screenplay category.

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Writer Statement

Good films start with good writing, and you can't have one without the other. "If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage."
No matter how valiantly your actors and directors may try, you can't have a good film without a good script.