Byzance

Name: Byzance
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1964-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 11 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: André Reybaz

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.