Byzance

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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.

Country:

France

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

11 minutes

Year:

1964

Director:

Maurice Pialat

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Company:

Como Film

Cast:
André Reybaz

Narrator

Crew:
Maurice Pialat

Director

Stefan Zweig

Writer

Samy Halfon

Producer

Willy Kurant

Director of Photography