Byzance (1964)

Byzance (1964)

Release Date: 1964, January 1
Directors: Maurice Pialat
Countries: France
Production: Como Film
Cast: André Reybaz

Overview:

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.