Oscar contender in “Best Documentary” and ten-times award-winning TORN FROM THE FLAG: A FILM BY KLAUDIA KOVACS just received an invite to Film Festival at the Corvin Theater. The event will take place in October 2026 in Hungary and is organized to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight. The showing will be followed by a panel discussion featuring the film’s director, Klaudia Kovacs, historians, survivors, and witnesses. The documentary’s second screening in the country will help introduce this uniquely evergreen and highly respected project to local audiences. The event-series is supported by Budapest Film, the City of Budapest, and the National Film Archive. At the opening, there will be speeches by Katalin Jánosi, the granddaughter of Imre Nagy, historian János M. Rainer, former director of the '56 Institute, and Budapest’s Mayor Gergely Karácsony. The festival’s director is Réka Pigniczky, co-founder and Pál Schiffer Prize-winning director of 56Films.
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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