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