Director: Maurice Pialat
French with Turkish subtitles
“These films offer an insight into the particular relationship between documentary and fiction in Pialat’s filmmaking.” - Museum of the Moving Image
In 1964, Pialat and cinematographer Willy Kurant headed to Turkey, where they produced a series of five lyrical shorts dedicated to the country’s history and people.
Bosphore
France, 1964, 14', b&w
Made for the Turkish Chronicles, a series of short documentaries shot in Turkey, Bosphore is the most classic, for his harmony between voice and image, and the most pictural.
Byzance
France, 1964, 11', HDD, b&w
Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453.
La Corne d'Or
France, 1964, 12', b&w
La Corne d'Or juxtaposes a poem by Gérard de Nerval with a powerful study of Ottoman architecture.
İstanbul
France, 1964, 13', b&w
Istanbul takes into the crowded streets and back alleys of a fascinating city divided between continents. Istanbul is one of the six shorts Maurice Pialat dedicated to Turkey.
Maître Galip
France, 1964, 11', b&w
One of the most beautiful film in the Turkish Chronicles series, over the poems of Nazim Hikmet.
Having penetrated the Balkans in the fourteenth century, conquered Constantinople in the fifteenth, and reached the gates of Vienna in the sixteenth, the Ottoman Empire long struck fear into European hearts.
Giorgio de Chirico was born on July 10, 1888, in Volos, Greece, to an Italian family. His mother, Gemma Cervetto, was from a family of Genoa origin, but most likely she was born in Izmir. His father, Evaristo, was born on June 21, 1841 in the Büyükdere district of Istanbul.
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