Documentary examining the human stories behind three minutes of footage shot in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland.
The three minutes of footage, shot by David Kurtz and mostly in colour, are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. The existing three minutes are imaginatively edited to create a film that lasts more than an hour; unravelling the stories of the people the film captures and attempting to postpone an inevitable future. As long as we are watching, history is not over.
Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, with accounts by David Kurtz's grandson Glenn, and Maurice Chandler, who appears in the film as a boy, Three Minutes: A Lengthening is a powerful and innovative treatment of a snapshot from history.
- DIRECTOR: Bianca Stigter
- CAST: Helena Bonham Carter
- LANGUAGE: English, German, Polish, Yiddish (with English subtitles)
