Summary
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.
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Audiences 68GoodWatch 67
Letterboxd · 233 ratings3.5/5
IMDb6.6
Released
1964
January 1, 1964
62 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
FrenchMade in
France
Directing · 1
- Maurice Pialat Director
Writing · 1
- Stefan Zweig Writer
Production · 1
- Samy Halfon Producer
Camera · 1
- Willy Kurant Director of Photography
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Film 2 of 6 · after Maître Galip · then Bosphore
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GoodWatch score 72Film 1
- Byzance (1964)
GoodWatch score 66You're here
- Bosphore (1964)
GoodWatch score 68Film 3
- Istanbul (1964)
GoodWatch score 69Film 4
- Golden Horn (1964)
GoodWatch score 63Film 5
- Pehlivan (1964)
GoodWatch score 69Film 6
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