Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453. 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. Byzance is one of Pialat’s six Turkish shorts.
| Directing | Maurice Pialat | Director |
| Writing | Stefan Zweig | Writer |
| Production | Samy Halfon | Producer |
| Camera | Willy Kurant | Director of Photography |
