Byzance (1964)

Byzance

1964

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Maurice Pialat

Cast

André Reybaz as Narrator

Crew

Willy Kurant (Director of Photography)

Samy Halfon (Producer)

Stefan Zweig (Writer)