Byzance (1964)

Directed by

Maurice Pialat

Genre

documentary film

Country

France

Runtime

11 min

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short documentary about the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453. It uses words by Stefan Zweig to tell the story of the conquest.

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