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The Death of the Centurion - A mystery story of the past

When the young recruit Candidus is dispatched to the newly formed Roman Province Dacia, in the savages territories of the Dacian rebels, he is the witnessing the strange and mystycal death of the Centurion Cassius Liberius, in its fragile balance between reality and superstition.

  • Octavian Repede
    Director
    The Astronaut of God, Voyage to Himalaya - The Kangchenjunga Expedition 2022, The Last Dream for the Moon,
  • Octavian Repede
    Writer
    The Astronaut of God, Voyage to Himalaya - The Kangchenjunga Expedition 2022, The Last Dream for the Moon,
  • Cristian Ciomaga
    Key Cast
    "Centurion Candidus Liberius"
  • Tudor Urea
    Key Cast
    "Candidus"
  • Florin Nicula
    Key Cast
    "Aquila"
  • Octavian Repede
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Moartea Centurionului - O poveste de mister a trecutului
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    June 10, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Romania
  • Country of Filming:
    Romania
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    4k, DCI
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Ponza Film Festival
    Ponza
    Italy
    February 4, 2025
    Best History Film
  • Dracula Film Festival
    Dracula Film Festival
    Romania
    October 31, 2024
    Official Selection
  • SIMFEST 2024
    Targu-Mureș
    Romania
    October 4, 2024
    Official Selection
  • WEBSERIES & FILM FESTIVAL
    Lima
    Peru
    October 22, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Sicilian Film Awards 2024
    Palermo
    Italy
    January 25, 2025
    Best history film
  • Madrid Fiesta Film Award 2024
    Madrid
    Spain
    May 12, 2025
    Best History Film
  • Bufallo Roots Film Festival 2025
    Roma
    Italy
    June 5, 2025
    Best History Film, Short
  • Machu Picchu International Film Festival 2025
    Cusco
    Peru
    July 24, 2025
    Best History Short Film
Director Biography - Octavian Repede

Independent director, screenwriter, video-editor and cinematographer. President of the Association for film and literature “Nova Polaris“ of Sibiu, Romania. Born in 1985. With a rich background in videography and journalism and television studies. Still in love with the sea, ancient history and astronautics. As an independent, although I didn’t always have the desired filming budgets, the top-notch equipment or the dreamt distribution, I always had the freedom to do things as I felt and not as they were imposed to me by some marketing limits. So, for every movie I could completely resonate with the theme of the film. And I had the satisfaction of being immersed for months in the universe of a story. Being deeply fascinated and dedicated to my work. Sometimes I exaggerated but as Freud said “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” And without passion you cannot achieve great things!

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Director Statement

"The death of the centurion" is an adaptation of an urban legend heard from my father, which in turn was told to him by an elderly uncle, so a story with an oral history of 3 generations transposed somewhere in Roman antiquity of the II century in Dacia Province, in the wilderness of the Carpathians. A scenario premise that accompanied me for several years until I found the possibility of making it into a screen. In "Death of the Centurion" I wanted to create a particularly unclear, oppressive world, with a lot of action at night, with a Chiaroscuro cinematography of lights, shadows, fires, torches, candles(inspired by Georges de La Tour), a world in which the invader finds and keeps with difficulty the firmness of his convictions and strongly questions his personal spiritual universe in front of the local beliefs and events…