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Dive into history with Klaudia Kovacs, director of the Oscar contender and multi-award-winning documentary Torn from the Flag at the University of California on January 24, 2025.
Her powerful piece captures the decline of communism and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, featuring insights from historical icons like Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger and Otto von Habsburg.
Experience stunning cinematography by Academy Award winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and cinematography legend Laszlo Kovacs, then engage in a lively post-screening discussion on Eastern European history, Cold War politics, and the art of filmmaking with the documentary’s director.
About this course:
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.