Byzance

11m
Documentary
6.3

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.

Cast

André Reybaz
Narrator

Crew

Maurice Pialat
Director
Stefan Zweig
Writer
Willy Kurant
Director of Photography
Samy Halfon
Producer

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