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196411 minPGdocumentary

6.5/ 10(14 ratings)• TMDB

Byzance

196411 minPGdocumentary

6.5/ 10(14 ratings)• TMDB

A vivid exploration of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453.

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A vivid exploration of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453.

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Maurice Pialat

Maurice Pialatdirector

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweigwriter

André Reybaz

André Reybazcast

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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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