Amherst College Acquires documentary, TORN FROM THE FLAG, for its Library

Amherst College acquired the documentary, TORN FROM THE FLAG - A FILM BY KLAUDIA KOVACS, for its library. American political scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, William Taubman, stars in the Oscar-contender and eight-time award-winning film about the Cold War and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Taubman is a Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, and his biography of Nikita Khrushchev also won the National Book Critics Award for Biography in 2003.

Currently, for the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Freedom Fight of 1956, the so called “70 for 70 Program” aims to actively expand TORN FROM THE FLAG’s presence in American libraries and seeks to be added to another 70 libraries around the country. Libraries can acquire the movie here: https://klaudiakovacs.com/torn-from-the-flag-public-use-dvd

Private audiences can stream TORN FROM THE FLAG here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tornfromtheflag

Poster of Director Klaudia Kovacs' Film, TORN FROM THE FLAG, Exhibited at Hungarian Consulate in Los Angeles

The Consulate General of Hungary - Los Angeles participated in the International Commemoration Series, entitled 70 for 70, and displayed the poster of the Oscar contender and multi-award-winning documentary, TORN FROM THE FLAG. The Series pays homage to the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Polish October, as well as celebrate the 35th anniversary of the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union. Learn more here: https://klaudiakovacs.com/torn-from-the-flag-70-for-70