One-off
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Director(s):
PLAISANT (Jacques)
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Producer(s):
TOURNEZ S'IL VOUS PLAIT, ARTE FRANCE
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2026
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Language(s):
German, English, French
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Rights:
TV, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD
In the 4th century, when the Roman Empire, weakened by barbarian invasions, was at its lowest, Constantine the Great decided to create a Christian Empire, and positioned his new capital, Constantinople, on Greek territory. The Eastern Roman Empire would go down in history as the Byzantine Empire, named after the colony, Byzantium, on which Constantinople was founded.
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.