Search Film, Company, People...

THREE MINUTES - A LENGTHENING

By Bianca STIGTER

SEE NL (EYE / NETHERLANDS FILMFUND / NETHERLANDS FILM COMMISSION) - as PROMO

Documentary - Completed 2021

Three minutes of footage are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. Three minutes, in colour, random, full of life, are turned into a historical and personal dimension. Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter.
SALES: Autlook Filmsales

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2021

TIFF Docs

Sundance Film Festival 2022

Spotlight

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- NETHERLANDS
- Languages
- ENGLISH, POLISH, YIDDISH, GERMAN
- Duration
- 69 mn
- Director(s)
- Bianca STIGTER
- Producer(s)
- Floor ONRUST (FAMILY AFFAIR FILMS)
- Synopsis
- Three Minutes – A Lengthening presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland and tries to postpone its ending. The film is a haunting essay about history and memory. As long as we are watching, history is not over yet. The three minutes of footage, mostly in color, are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. Those precious minutes are examined moment by moment to unravel the human stories hidden in the celluloid. Different voices enhance the images: Glenn Kurtz, grandson of David Kurtz, and Maurice Chandler, who appears in the footage as a young boy. Actress Helena Bonham Carter narrates the film.
  SALES: Autlook Filmsales

THREE MINUTES - A LENGTHENING

Festivals& Awards

Festivals
& Awards