Three Minutes: A Lengthening
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Examining just three minutes of a home movie shot of a Jewish community in the Polish village of Nasielsk in 1938, shortly before it was decimated during the Holocaust, the footage, offering a small, rare glimpse of lost lives, becomes a priceless historical artifact.
This riveting documentary is based on the 2014 book Three Minutes in Poland: Discovery a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film by American musician Glenn Kurtz, whose grandfather David shot the footage.
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“Three Minutes: A Lengthening unspools like a not-so-minor miracle. It’s a work of poetry, power and ruminative grace.”
Washington Post
“Bianca Stigter's documentary Three Minutes: A Lengthening is a great film about filmmaking and a quietly devastating memorial for lives long gone.”
RogerEbert.com
““Three Minutes” is more than a documentary about the Holocaust — it is an investigative drama, a meditation on the ethics of moving images and a ghost story about people who might be forgotten should we take those images for granted.”
The New York Times