Byzance

Year: 1964

Runtime: 11 mins

Language: French

Director: Maurice Pialat

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Using Stefan Zweig’s text, Byzance dramatizes the 1453 Ottoman capture of Constantinople. Director Maurice Pialat, who later debuted his first feature with Naked Childhood in 1968, had previously made a series of short films financed by French television. Byzance is one of the six Turkish‑themed shorts he produced.

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