1964 · 0h 11m · Documentary
Genres: Documentary
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.
Director: Maurice Pialat
Writers: Stefan Zweig
Cinematography: Willy Kurant
Part of the Turkish Chronicles franchise.