Three Minutes: A Lengthening

[Played Oct. 20 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on various VOD platforms.] Helena Bonham Carter narrates Bianca Stigter's award-winning, poignant, moving, nostalgic, 69-minute, 2021 documentary that examines and dissects frame-by-frame the grainy, dialogue-free, three-minute, 16mm home movie snippet, which was primarily in color and verbally annotated by Glenn Kurtz and Jewish villager Maurice Chandle who was then a 13-year-old boy in the movie clip, filmed in 1938 by David Kurtz in Nasielsk, Poland, prior to the onset of WWII and was home to 7,000 villagers of whom 3,000 were Jews and many were sent to the Treblinka concentration camp (only 100 survived); the short film was donated eventually to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. after its discovery in 2009.
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