Byzance

Byzance

11 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1964

Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453. Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked Childhood, Pialat worked on a series of short films, many of them financed by French television. Byzance is one of Pialat’s six Turkish shorts.

Byzance

11 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1964

Byzance
Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453. Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked Childhood, Pialat worked on a series of short films, many of them financed by French television. Byzance is one of Pialat’s six Turkish shorts.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Como Film
Original title Byzance
Directors Maurice Pialat
Writers Stefan Zweig

Cast

André Reybaz

as Narrator