Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2021)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 69 minuten
Country:
Netherlands / United Kingdom
Directed by: Bianca Stigter
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter
IMDb score:
7,3 (714)
Releasedate: 2 December 2022
Three Minutes: A Lengthening plot
In a holiday film found in 1938, the Jewish inhabitants of a small Polish village jostle in front of the lens. The grim, inescapable reality is that hardly any of them survived the Holocaust. In this quest, the three-minute color film fragment is closely studied by repeating it over and over. Who are the people who appear in the picture? What's in the grainy letters above the store?
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De filosoof
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- 2246 messages
- 1523 votes
It is special that a (holiday) movie has surfaced, recorded in 1938 in a Polish village with about 250 people, ignorant of what would happen to them. The makers of this documentary have done their best, but they have not managed to squeeze out much interesting. I had expected some stories from or about some of the identified persons in the video, but there are actually none; there is only the (well-known) collective story that they were persecuted as Jews and that hardly anyone survived the war. The documentary is also told in a confused manner and is therefore difficult to follow. The presence of the persons in the 1938 film makes the painful absence - destruction - of them and their world in 1938 tangible and the 1938 film is thus a beautiful memorial to the anonymous persons in the film who died because it gives faces to them. But extending those images to more than an hour does not increase their presence due to the lack of stories and also adds little else.
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Movsin
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- 8100 messages
- 8303 votes
Motivated analysis of an amateur film with emotional consequences, since the images speak of imminent victims of the persecution of the Jews.
It is true that films or photos take on a deeper idiom when they deal with important, especially dramatic, circumstances, even if the images do not yet show this.
The film does indeed, except for the general account, bring to light no shocking stories, but it still appeals to see those ordinary people living in their faith, so innocent, shortly before most will die in horrific circumstances .
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mrklm
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- 9952 messages
- 9157 votes
In 2009, Glenn Kurtz came across footage that his Polish-American grandfather David had shot during a trip through Europe in 1938. This documentary focuses entirely on 3 minutes filmed in David's hometown of Nasielk, a town of about 7,000 inhabitants, 3,000 of whom were Jewish. In December 1939, the Nazis had all Jews deported to concentration camps, only a few dozen survived the war, including Moszek Tuchendler. With the help of Moszek, Bianca Stigter and Glenn Kurtz try to find out more about the more than a hundred people who appear on screen (mostly laughing and waving). This documentary starts with a complete screening of the film, without commentary, without music. The rest of the film consists of stills or slowed down fragments and because the people in the film stare directly into the camera, you are almost forced to concern yourself with the human story behind each person. A uniquely designed, penetrating and effective portrait of one of the many Jewish communities of which almost every trace has been erased as a result of the Holocaust. The collage, in which each person in the video is highlighted, may be just as effective as the two minutes of silence that we hold annually on May 4. A Dutch-English production to be proud of.
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