In 2009, Kurtz found a home video shot by his family that included three minutes of footage in Nasielsk, Poland, shot in 1938. He set out to restore the film and find the people in it. The book based on this journey is titled Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).[5] The film Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2022), directed by Bianca Stigter, is based on the book.[6]
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