• Director(s):

    PLAISANT (Jacques)

  • Producer(s):

    TOURNEZ S'IL VOUS PLAIT, ARTE FRANCE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2026

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

In the 4th century, Constantine the Great founded a Christian empire with its capital, Constantinople, on Greek land. Built on the site of Byzantium, it became known as the Byzantine Empire.

From 330, the date of Constantinople's foundation, to 1453, the date of the city's capture by the Ottomans, the history of Byzantium unfolded across more than a thousand years of conquests, ups and downs — a civilization at once Roman, Christian and Greek, neither entirely Eastern nor entirely Western, straddling Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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