Centurion (film)
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| Directed by | Neil Marshall |
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Christian Colson Robert Jones |
| Written by | Neil Marshall |
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Michael Fassbender Dominic West Olga Kurylenko Noel Clarke Liam Cunningham David Morrissey Riz Ahmed JJ Feild Dimitri Leonidas Imogen Poots Ulrich Thomsen |
| Music by | Ilan Eshkeri |
| Cinematography | Sam McCurdy |
| Edited by | Chris Gill |
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| Distributed by | Pathé |
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97 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English Gaelic |
| Budget | $12 million |
| Box office | $6,168,898 |
Centurion is a 2010 British historical action-war film directed by Neil Marshall, loosely based on the disappearance of the Roman Empire's Ninth Legion in Caledonia in the early second century AD. The film stars Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, and Olga Kurylenko. It received mixed to positive reviews and performed poorly at the box office, only earning half of its $12m budget.
Beginning in 117 AD, the narrative opens with a Roman soldier fleeing across a snowy landscape, saying: "My name is Quintus Dias. I am a soldier of Rome, and this is neither the beginning, nor the end of my story."
The Romans have been unable to fully conquer Britain, meeting the fiercest resistance in the north, and the Picts of Alba are engaging in a guerrilla campaign against the Roman forts along the Glenblocker line and the Gask Ridge at the southern border of the Scottish Highlands. At the Roman outpost of Pinnata Castra, Pictish warriors led by Vortix and Aeron force surprise and kill the entire garrison, taking only one survivor for questioning, the second-in-command, Centurion Quintus Dias, because he can speak the Pictish tongue. Dias is brought before the Pictish king Gorlacon, who has united the northern tribes. Dias is brutally interrogated, but two weeks later escapes on foot, as depicted at the beginning of the film.
However, a messenger dispatched by the fort's commander has reached Gnaeus Julius Agricola, the Roman governor of Britannia, who wants to obtain favour with the Roman Senate, hoping to secure a transfer back to the comforts of Rome. He dispatches the Ninth Legion, under General Titus Flavius Virilus, to eradicate the Pictish threat and provides him with a female Celtic Brigantian scout called Etain. As the legion marches north it encounters Dias and rescues him from his pursuers.
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