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2022
PG
Neon
1 h 9 m

2022
PG
Neon
1 h 9 m

Summary So long as we are watching history, history is not over. Three minutes of footage, shot by David Kurtz in 1938, are the only moving images remaining of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk, Poland before the Holocaust. Three Minutes: A Lengthening explores the human stories hidden within the celluloid. [Super LTD]

Directed By: Bianca Stigter

Written By: Glenn Kurtz, Bianca Stigter

2022
PG
Neon
1 h 9 m

2022
PG
Neon
1 h 9 m

Three Minutes: A Lengthening

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 18 Critic Reviews

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Summary So long as we are watching history, history is not over. Three minutes of footage, shot by David Kurtz in 1938, are the only moving images remaining of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk, Poland before the Holocaust. Three Minutes: A Lengthening explores the human stories hidden within the celluloid. [Super LTD]

Directed By: Bianca Stigter

Written By: Glenn Kurtz, Bianca Stigter

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Helena Bonham Carter

Self - Narrator

Glenn Kurtz

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Moszek Tuchendler

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Christian Science Monitor

Sep 26, 2022

The film medium has often been discussed in academic terms as a vehicle to contain the passage of time. But “Three Minutes” does much more than that. Although it raises all sorts of issues about the nature of the film image and how it can affect us, it is also the least theoretical of movies. We are bearing witness.

By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW

Jul 26, 2022

A poetic meditation on film, history, and loss, Three Minutes – A Lengthening gives a glimpse into a lost world and then unpacks just how much can be learned from that brief fragment.

By Joe Blessing FULL REVIEW

Jul 26, 2022

Stigter’s method is simultaneously creative and forensic, but never sentimental. Working with a digitized copy that bears the blemishes left by the deterioration of the original celluloid, she conjures up exactly what she declares in the subtitle: a lengthening.

By Alissa Simon FULL REVIEW

Jan 27, 2022

Three Minutes – A Lengthening is not a ghost story, but it still feels haunting.

By Chris Evangelista FULL REVIEW

Jul 26, 2022

It grips the attention from start to finish.

By Nicholas Barber FULL REVIEW

Aug 16, 2022

The impression “Three Minutes” leaves is that it’s more probing than moving, more of a mystery to be unraveled than an emotional journey into who and what were lost. It’s still quite worthwhile as history and as a meditation on tragedy and the nature of filmed memory.

By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

Aug 17, 2022

The truth is that even at 71 minutes much of this film feels padded, as though Stigter couldn’t let go of the subject but also wasn’t sure how to expand it further. Because Kurtz’s concept is so moving, however, the film retains much of the power he brought to his book.

By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings

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22% Mixed
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Production Company Family Affair Films, Lammas Park

Release Date Aug 19, 2022

Duration 1 h 9 m

Rating PG

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Website https://superltd.com/films/three-minutes-a-lengthening

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Awards

Critics' Choice Documentary Awards

• 5 Nominations

Atlanta Jewish Film Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Dublin International Film Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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