Istanbul (1964) [N/A]
Featuring:
Pierre Asso
Directed by:
Maurice Pialat
Release Date:
January 1, 1964
Original Title:
Istanbul
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Como Film
Production Countries:
France
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 13
documentary short
All of Pialat's Turkish films are uniquely interested in the country — especially Istanbul — as it was, not just as it is at the precise moment that Pialat is filming it. History informs these films in a big way, with the voiceover narration (which incorporates excerpts from various authors) introducing tension between the images of the modern-day city and the descriptions of incidents from its long and rich history. Istanbul is probably the most conventional documentary of Pialat's Turkish series, providing a general profile of the titular city, its different neighborhoods, and the different cultures and ways of living that coexist within its sprawling borders. As the other films in the series also suggest, Pialat sees Turkey, and Istanbul in particular, as a junction point between Europe and the East, between the old and the new, between history and modernity.
The modern city of Byzance with its three cities united as one by the Bosphorus river and Galata bridge.
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