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.
Directing | Maurice Pialat | Director |
Writing | Stefan Zweig | Writer |
Production | Samy Halfon | Producer |
Camera | Willy Kurant | Director of Photography |