Three Minutes - A Lengthening

As a child, David Kurtz emigrated from Poland to the United States. In 1938, he returned to Europe as a tourist and visited, among other places, his native city Nasielsk. He bought a 16mm camera especially for that trip and also filmed in Nasielsk. This resulted in a three-minute film, which also shows the Jewish residents of the town. As far as is known, these are the only moving images of Jewish life there before the Holocaust. What do the images tell us about this life? What stories are hidden in the celluloid? Director Bianca Stigter edited the found footage full of imagination to create a film that lasts more than an hour. The end is postponed as long as possible; while it lasts, history is not yet over.

Grandson Glenn Kurtz once found the film, studied it in depth and wrote a book about it: Three Minutes in Poland. WEe will hear him, as will Maurice Chandler, who appears as a boy in the film. Actress Helena Bonham Carter tells the story.