Byzance

(1964)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 14 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1964

Runtime: 11 мин

Country: France

Director: Maurice Pialat

Cast: Андре Рейбаз

Plot

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.