Byzantium was, without exaggeration, one of the most grandiose civilizations in the history of mankind. No other empire has lived so long. Byzantium lasted 1120 years. The fabulous riches, beauty and sophistication of the capital of the empire - Constantinople - literally shook the European peoples, who were in the heyday of Byzantium in a state of deep barbarism.
Byzantium was the only country in the world that stretched across the vast expanse between Europe and Asia - already this geography largely determined its uniqueness. It is very important that Byzantium by its nature was a multinational imperial power, in which the people felt the state as one of their highest personal values.
So why did it become possible that this great and unusually viable state from some moment began to rapidly lose its vitality? In the film, we will talk about the internal enemy that appeared in the spiritual depths of Byzantine society and crushed the spirit of a great nation, making it a defenseless victim of those challenges of history that Byzantium was no longer able to respond to.
