In 1961, Stanislaw Rozewicz created the novella film "Birth Certificate" in cooperation with his brother, Taduesz Rozewicz as screenwriter. Such brother tandems are rare in the history of film but aside from family ties, Stanislaw (born in 1924) and Taduesz (born in 1921) were mutually bound by their love for the cinema. They were born and grew up in Radomsk, a small town which had "its madmen and its saints" and most importanly, the "Kinema" cinema, as Stanislaw recalls: for him cinema is "heaven, the whole world, enchantment". Tadeusz says he considers cinema both a charming market stall and a mysterious temple. "All this savage land has always attracted and fascinated me," he says. "I am devoured by cinema and I devour cinema; I'm a cinema eater." But Taduesz Rozewicz, an eminent writer, admits this unique form of cooperation was a problem to him: "It is the presence of the other person not only in the process of writing, but at its very core, which is inserperable for me from absolute solitude." Some scenes the brothers wrote together; others were created by the writer himself, following discussions with the director. But from the perspective of time, it is "Birth Certificate", rather than "Echo" or "The Wicked Gate", that Taduesz describes as his most intimate film. This is understandable. The tradgey from September 1939 in Poland was for the Rozewicz brothers their personal "birth certificate". When working on the film, the director said "This time it is all about shaking off, getting rid of the psychological burden which the war was for all of us. ... Cooperation with my brother was in this case easier, as we share many war memories. We wanted to show to adult viewers a picture of war as seen by a child. ... In reality, it is the adults who created the real world of massacres. Children beheld the horrors coming back to life, exhumed from underneath the ground, overwhelming the earth."
The principle of composition of "Birth Certificate" is not obvious. When watching a novella film, we tend to think in terms of traditional theatre. We expect that a miniature story will finish with a sharp point; the three film novellas in Rozewicz's work lack this feature. We do not know what will be happen to the boy making his alone through the forest towards the end of "On the Road". We do not know whether in "Letter from the Camp", the help offered by the small heroes to a Soviet prisoner will rescue him from the unknown fate of his compatriots. The fate of the Jewish girl from "Drop of Blood" is also unclear. Will she keep her new impersonation as "Marysia Malinowska"? Or will the Nazis make her into a representative of the "Nordic race"? Those questions were asked by the director for a reason. He preceived war as chaos and perdition, and not as linear history that could be reflected in a plot. Although "Birth Certificate" is saturated with moral content, it does not aim to be a morality play. But with the immense pressure of reality, no varient of fate should be excluded. This approached can be compared wth Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Blind Chance" 25 years later, which pictured dramatic choices of a different era.
The film novella "On the Road" has a very sparing plot, but it drew special attention of the reviewers. The ominating overtone of the war films created by the Polish Film School at that time should be kept in mind. Mainly owing to Wajda, those films dealt with romantic heritage. They were permeated with pathos, bitterness, and irony. Rozewicz is an extraordinary artist. When narrating a story about a boy lost in a war zone, carrying some documents from the regiment office as if they were a treasure, the narrator in "On the Road" discovers rough prose where one should find poetry. And suddenly, the irrational touches this rather tame world. The boy, who until that moment resembled a Polish version of the Good Soldier Schweik, sets off, like Don Quixote, for his first and last battle. A critic described it as "an absurd gesture and someone else could surely use it to criticise the Polish style of dying. ... But the Rozewicz brothers do no accuse: they only compose an elegy for the picturesque peasant-soldier, probably the most important veteran of the Polish war of 1939-1945." "Birth Certificate" is not a lofty statement about national imponderabilia. The film reveals a plebeian perspective which Aleksander Jackieqicz once contrasted with those "lyrical lamentations" inherent in the Kordian tradition. However, a historical overview of Rozewicz's work shows that the distinctive style does not signify a fundamental difference in illustrating the Polish September. Just as the memorable scene from Wajda's "Lotna" was in fact an expression of desperation and distress, the same emotions permeate the final scene of "Birth Certificate". These are not ideological concepts, though once described as such and fervently debated, but rather psychological creations. In this specific case, observes Witold Zalewski, it is not about manifesting knightly pride, but about a gesture of a simple man who does not agree to be enslaved.
The novella "Drop of Blood" is, with Aleksander Ford's "Border Street", one of the first narrations of the fate of the Polish Jews during the Nazi occupation. The story about a girl literally looking for her place on earth has a dramatic dimension. Especially in the age of today's journalistic disputes, often manipulative, lacking in empathy and imbued with bad will, Rozewicz's story from the past shocks with its authenticity. The small herione of the story is the only one who survives a German raid on her family home. Physical survial does not, however, mean a return to normality. Her frightened departure from the rubbish dump that was her hideout lead her to a ruined apartment. Her walk around it is painful because still fresh signs of life are mixed with evidence of annihilation. Help is needed, but Mirka does not know anyone in the outside world. Her subsequent attempts express the state of the fugitive's spirits - from hope and faith, moving to doubt, a sense of oppression, and thickening fear, and finally to despair.
At the same time, the Jewish girl's search for refuge resembles the state of Polish society. The appearance of Mirka results in confusion, and later, trouble. This was already signalled by Rozewicz in an exceptional scene from "Letter from the Camp" in which the boy's neighbour, seeing a fugitive Russian soldier, retreats immediately, admitting that "Now, people worry only about themselves." Such embarassing excuses mask fear. During the occupation, no one feels safe. Neither social status not the aegis of a charity organisation protects against repression. We see the potential guardians of Mirka passing her back and forth among themselves. These are friendly hands but they cannot offer strong support. The story takes place on that thin line between solidarity and heroism. Solidarity arises spontaneously, but only some are capable of heroism. Help for the girl does not always result from compassion; sometimes it is based on past relations and personal ties (a neighbour of the doctor takes in the fugitive for a few days because of past friendship). Rozewicz portrays all of this in a subtle way; even the smallest gesture has significance. Take, for example, the conversation with a stranger on the train: short, as if jotted down on the margin, but so full of tension. And earlier, a peculiar examination of Polishness: the "Holy Father" prayer forced on Mirka by the village boys to check that she is not a Jew. Would not rising to the challenge mean a death sentance?
Viewed after many years, "Birth Certificate" discloses yet another quality that is not present in the works of the Polish School, but is prominent in later B-class war films. This is the picture of everyday life during the war and occupation outlined in the three novellas. It harmonises with the logic of speaking about "life after life". Small heroes of Rozewicz suddenly enter the reality of war, with no experience or scale with which to compare it. For them, the present is a natural extension of and at the same time a complete negation of the past. Consider the sleey small-town marketplace, through which armoured columns will shortly pass. Or meet the German motorcyclists, who look like aliens from outer space - a picture taken from an autopsy because this is how Stanislaw and Taduesz perceived the first Germans they ever met. Note the blurred silhouettes of people against a white wall who are being shot - at first they are shocking, but soon they will probably become a part of the grim landscape. In the city centre stands a prisoner camp on a sodden bog ("People perish likes flies; the bodies are transported during the night"); in the street the childern are running after a coal wagon to collect some precious pieces of fuel. There's a bustle around some food (a boy reproaches his younger brother's actions by singing: "The warrant officer's son is begging in front of the church? I'm going to tell mother!"); and the kitchen, which one evening becomes the proscenium of a real drama. And there are the symbols: a bar of chocolate forced upon a boy by a Wehrmacht soldier ("On the Road"); a pair of shoes belonging to Zbyszek's father which the boy spontaneously gives to a Russian fugitive; a priceless slice of bread, ground under the heel of a policeman in the guter ("Letters from the Camp"). As the director put it: "In every film, I communicate my own vision of the world and of the people. Only then the style follows, the defined way of experiencing things." In Birth Certificate, he adds, his approach was driven by the subject: "I attempted to create not only the texture of the document but also to add some poetic element. I know it is risky but as for the merger of documentation and poety, often hidden very deep, if only it manages to make its way onto the screen, it results in what can referred to as 'art'."
After 1945, there were numerous films created in Europe that dealt with war and children, including "Somewhere in Europe" ("Valahol Europaban", 1947 by Geza Radvanyi), "Shoeshine" ("Sciescia", 1946 by Vittorio de Sica), and "Childhood of Ivan" ("Iwanowo dietstwo" by Andriej Tarkowski). Yet there were fewer than one would expect. Pursuing a subject so imbued with sentimentalism requires stylistic disipline and a special ability to manage child actors. The author of "Birth Certificate" mastered both - and it was not by chance. Stanislaw Rozewicz was always the beneficent spirit of the film milieu; he could unite people around a common goal. He emanated peace and sensitivity, which flowed to his co-workers and pupils. A film, being a group work, necessitates some form of empathy - tuning in with others.
In a biographical documentary about Stanislaw Rozewicz entitled "Walking, Meeting" (1999 by Antoni Krauze), there is a beautiful scene when the director, after a few decades, meets Beata Barszczewska, who plays Mireczka in the novella "Drops of Blood". The woman falls into the arms of the elderly man. They are both moved. He wonders how many years have passed. She answers: "A few years. Not too many." And Rozewicz, with his characteristic smile says: "It is true. We spent this entire time together."
因为个人经历和里面的主角还挺像的，所以很有感触，和《红鳉鱼》也形成了互文。艺术真是需要去燃烧生命去做的，但有时候也要保持开放性。不过有时候坚持自己的成了，有时候回归平淡的反而活得有滋有味，未来谁都说不准，所以还是要坦诚地活，用心去感受。
开局的感觉不必要的布属，白天取回尸体的必要性没有突出，小环节有预感，一人战坦克又来了。但演员的认真加一分
什么叫物哀？真实和表演的穿插，将喜剧的悲伤内核温柔又血淋淋的展示，最后北野武的背影根本控制不住的流眼泪，太好看了
并没有什么铺垫，上来就直接惨烈的遭遇战。节奏很好，简单粗暴，爽快利落，章宇仍旧帅！战争真的是魔鬼，但也是人类放出来的魔鬼。
与其说是个人发迹史，不如说是记录了一段师生情。没有预期中的个性张扬，甚至可以说是俗气的讲述方式，但够真挚动人。影帝这种眼神内置孩童式纯真温柔还略呆萌的气质多少会让人有点出戏，但强大自我如北野武也确实很难“演”出来吧，以独立故事来看其实演绎得很不错了，包括大泉洋老师！以及门胁麦可以说是漫才恋人专业户了，嗓音又那么好听……霓虹的漫才心酸史还真是总能拍得触动人心。
影片的立意是以小见大，以一场小规模的战斗刻画志愿军战士的牺牲精神。我们倒不介意影片能拍得再长些，多些对片中角色的刻画，他们不仅仅是执行任务的战士，也是一个个活生生的人，有父母、有妻儿、有生活的鲜活个体。
蛮好的，人物刻画很好，尤其残酷的战争年代里真诚的孩子。但一有煽情画面就上悲情配乐，有点刻意。还有旁白的出现多多少少给人一种没必要，或者说有导演想偷懒的感觉……
哭崩了。韩红的片尾曲唱完眼泪还挂着。
对深见师傅的缅怀还挺让人感动的 年轻的北野武应该不会歪嘴脸抽搐吧 那股流氓痞劲儿却并没出来 老年版要是本尊出演多好 化妆搞得特可怕
我看的这场，有老人有孩子。一位戴着红围巾的老人也待到字幕放完，边下台阶边吸鼻子。
非常凝练精准的片子，而且第一次在同类型片子里看到双方博弈的过程，你来我回，有失误有高光，双方人物的塑造都是完整可信的，老谋子slay飞了。
（5）。带女儿拍戏是吧？主旋律电影的通病基本都整上，大量无能旁白加俗套煽情配乐。人物基本懒得塑造直接牺牲。开打第一个子弹扫射雪地的五毛特效就把我震惊了，直接梦回长津湖。
轻、快、简、明（但是——面瘫是在其时年47岁的摩托车祸导致，并非片中自打年轻就有；至于僵硬的特效化妆，堪称诡异）。
确实是春节档最好的一部，就是不明白为什么要在春节档上。
尊重战士。电影节奏太慢，部分情结冗长，刻意煽情。
国师yyds，很多时候，我想要的只是讲好一个故事。
和《火花》差不多的架构，都是以师徒情为主线，讲对喜剧梦想的坚守。《火花》太着重讲创作和表演本身，这部对此就只是略过，重点在人物情感和作为谐星的骄傲，更容易进入。两部结局一个失败一个成功，对创作者来说，终究还是才华比努力重要得多吧，对师父最好的传承就是超越他、颠覆他。以为老年北野武肯定是北野武本人出镜，看到最后才发现不是，为啥不能亲自致敬一下师父还要年轻人费劲化老妆啊？
抗美援朝我们在双方装备和补给悬殊巨大的情况下，靠着“小米➕步枪”，靠着志愿军的坚持，看着志愿军的生命赢得的。《狙击手》由小见大，展现出战争的残酷，立意很好。过分渲染甚至略显刻意的情感是主旋律电影最大的问题，该片也未能逃脱这个俗套。
-.-为啥一个子弹射击出膛的镜头要用那么多次呢。。好廉价啊
不错的小切入点命题电影，国师出手还是有质量保证的
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