Delighted to share about the top rating the UCLA course — Klaudia Kovács recently taught — received: the class was about the Cold War and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution accompanied by the director’s Oscar contender and multi-award-winning film, TORN FROM THE FLAG. As the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union and the 70th anniversary of Hungary’s freedom fight is approaching, reach out to the filmmaker directly if your institution is interested in a presentation and/or screening as well.
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Multi-Award Winning Film Director, Klaudia Kovács, Hired by UCLA's Osher Institute to Teach about Own Film, Oscar contender, TORN FROM THE FLAG /
Multi-award-winning film director, Klaudia Kovács, was hired by UCLA Extension, Osher Institute to teach about her own film, TORN FROM THE FLAG as part of the Winter Course, 2025.
“In this course, film director, Klaudia Kovács, presents her Oscar contender and multi-award-winning, international documentary, Torn from the Flag (2007), about the decline of communism and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The following notables appear in the documentary: Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, and Otto von Habsburg. The movie was made in collaboration with Mark Kramer, the director of Harvard University’s Cold War Studies Project; William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning Political Scientist and Khrushchev expert; Vilmos Zsigmond, Academy Award winning cinematographer; and Laszlo Kovacs, cinematography legend. After the screening, students take part in a discussion on the history and culture of Eastern Europe, the sociopolitical dynamics of the 20th century, and the filmmaking process itself.”
The course is open to the public. Register here: Torn from the Flag: A Film about the 1956 Hungarian Revolution Course - UCLA Extension