Three Minutes: A Lengthening
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Three Minutes: A Lengthening is a documentary film that meticulously expands and examines a brief fragment of prewar home-movie footage to explore the lives of a Jewish community in Poland before the Holocaust.
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| Three Minutes: A Lengthening canonical | 2 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Three Minutes: A Lengthening Context triple: [Bianca Stigter, notableWork, Three Minutes: A Lengthening]
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A.
Ten Minutes
Ten Minutes is a stand-up comedy special by comedian Byron Bowers.
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Film "13 Minutes"
"13 Minutes" is a historical drama film that portrays the true story of Georg Elser, a German carpenter who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939.
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C.
10 Minutes
"10 Minutes" is a short film directed by Satie Gossett that explores themes of race, justice, and the life-altering impact of a brief encounter with law enforcement.
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D.
Twelve Minutes
Twelve Minutes is a top-down, interactive thriller video game centered on a man trapped in a time loop, repeatedly reliving the same 12-minute scenario to uncover a mystery.
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E.
30 Minutes or Less
30 Minutes or Less is a 2011 action-comedy film about a pizza delivery driver forced into a bank robbery plot after criminals strap a bomb to his chest.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Three Minutes: A Lengthening Target entity description: Three Minutes: A Lengthening is a documentary film that meticulously expands and examines a brief fragment of prewar home-movie footage to explore the lives of a Jewish community in Poland before the Holocaust.
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A.
Ten Minutes
Ten Minutes is a stand-up comedy special by comedian Byron Bowers.
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B.
Film "13 Minutes"
"13 Minutes" is a historical drama film that portrays the true story of Georg Elser, a German carpenter who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939.
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C.
10 Minutes
"10 Minutes" is a short film directed by Satie Gossett that explores themes of race, justice, and the life-altering impact of a brief encounter with law enforcement.
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D.
Twelve Minutes
Twelve Minutes is a top-down, interactive thriller video game centered on a man trapped in a time loop, repeatedly reliving the same 12-minute scenario to uncover a mystery.
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E.
30 Minutes or Less
30 Minutes or Less is a 2011 action-comedy film about a pizza delivery driver forced into a bank robbery plot after criminals strap a bomb to his chest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
2020s film
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documentary film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Glenn Kurtz ⓘ |
| cinematographySource | home movies shot by David Kurtz ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Netherlands
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Bianca Stigter ⓘ |
| distributor | Neon ⓘ |
| explores |
erasure of communities in the Holocaust
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identification of people in archival footage ⓘ limits of visual evidence ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType | Jewish residents of Nasielsk ⓘ |
| genre |
documentary
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essay film ⓘ historical documentary ⓘ |
| hasTagline | A three-minute home movie. A world erased. ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Holocaust remembrance
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archival footage analysis ⓘ loss ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Holocaust
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Jewish community in Poland ⓘ Nasielsk ⓘ home movies ⓘ |
| narrator | Helena Bonham Carter ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed frame-by-frame analysis of prewar Jewish life
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expanding three minutes of footage into a feature-length film ⓘ |
| originalFootageDuration | 3 minutes ⓘ |
| producer |
Bianca Stigter
ⓘ
Steve McQueen ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Family Affair Films
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Lammas Park ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| runningTime | 69 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Bianca Stigter ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Nasielsk, Poland ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
critical acclaim for innovative use of archival footage
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film reviews ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted |
1938
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prewar Poland ⓘ |
| usesFootageType | 16mm home movie ⓘ |
| worldPremiereEvent | Venice Film Festival ⓘ |
| worldPremiereSection | Venice Classics ⓘ |
| worldPremiereYear | 2021 ⓘ |
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