Summary: 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. TURKISH CHRONICLES is a compendium of four pieces shot in Turkey. Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453.

Genre: Short

Country: France

Directed By: Maurice Pialat

Written By: Stefan Zweig

Starring: André Reybaz

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