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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Part of Turkish Chronicles
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Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
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The Viking Sagas
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When We Were Kings
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The Polio Crusade
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52 Blocks: Show and Prove
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Together We Cycle
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My Child
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Handbook of Movie Theaters' History
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Lost Heroes
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Memory Books
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The Hobbit Enigma
2008 · Movie
