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."
7.2 有点像《乔乔的异想世界》也有点像《元首的粉兔子》但没有这两者好。在宗教矛盾下一个街道中的96号家庭的命运，是留守还是离开，聚焦点不准，情绪太散，过度全部用音乐简单的处理，显得稚嫩而单一。但巴比真的很可爱，音乐也很好听。
感觉妈妈就是个家庭妇女啊,还和丈夫分居一两周才见一面，又经历过打砸抢，贝尔法斯特是有多值得留恋啊。
“走吧，再也别回来。”
给黑白的多南打一星，电影本身两星不能再多了，完全没有深入一个故事来打动观众，都是各个片段和事件转折的叠加，如果不是黑白估计会更加难静心看下去吧。
同样是儿童视角的回忆往事，同样精致的摄影运用，本片更显一份童真有趣，音乐不错。
从小孩的视角出发感染力太强了，虽然电影历史背景离我很遥远，但不妨碍在情感上有共鸣之处，尤其是最后的生离和死别，叫人感慨。好喜欢朱迪·丹奇演的奶奶啊！
音乐很不错，剧情是成长向的，没有特别低幼。一堆装备出动的时候居然还挺燃的😂
乡愁是上等工薪阶层拥有的特权。真正底层公民所熟悉的那种感觉根本不是乡愁，而是乡仇。别再用物件大肆占据画幅把人物挤到角落了，知道他们都很边缘很不容易行了吧。
跟《罗马》一样好或者一样差，取决于你是否喜欢《罗马》，挺感人，但没什么高级东西。我在还没看《上帝之手》的情况下就敢下结论，Kenneth Branagh拍自传（或者说他拍什么都）绝对拍不过Paolo Sorrentino。有几句很有道德观的台词还可以，但这对于Branagh这个级别的舞台剧名角来说是应该有的，不能算加分项。新教伦理不是最崇尚入世禁欲主义么，怎么不愿意去伦敦挣大钱开始新生活？去伦敦没耽误您女人缘不断呀，渣男尤其喜欢回忆纯情初恋。
不用去和罗马比，每个人的私人故事都是不一样的。相比之下贝尔法斯特甚至比罗马更让我共情，最后20分钟爆哭。小男孩很灵。
用糖霜和技巧把时代和童年回忆包裹了一层又一层，导致整部片显得花里胡哨的糖水娱乐片（多南有唱歌♥
2021和小小少年看的第一部电影，从这部开始他喜欢上电影院观影，且观影安静专注，会一直带他去看他喜欢的电影
属于一眼就能望到头的好，和爷爷奶奶亲近的孩子会更有感触，Buddy虎头虎脑精力过剩，妈妈也是当代孟母了，爸爸把儿子当成小男子汉，结尾三致如期而来，离别的伤感情绪迅速抽离，肯爵一直专注戏剧的宏大叙事，老了拍点文艺小品还挺惊喜的
莱德这个新发型还挺帅，喜欢新角色的那种乐观精神，小朋友还是很喜欢的！
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就算在civil war的时候，buddy的童年还是很开心的，有暗恋的女生，和爷爷奶奶拌嘴，和家人春游玩游戏，在看似应该是黑暗家庭负债的情况下，buddy一家人made the best out of it. If you can’t be good, be careful. 从小就展现出对film的热爱。好喜欢这部电影的背景配乐，萨克斯风solo的style真的是一股清流. If they can’t understand you, they are not listening.
这个没想到都有大电影了，我妹超爱看陪她去的
正好和《燃烧》对比，属于导演功力没那么深厚，无法把情绪控制在自己想要的范围内的电影。第一个镜头完全没有表现出来轻松快乐的生活VS暴力冲突之间的强烈对比。导演用了很多很多手法，就好像是初出茅庐的新手导演想把所有技术都用一遍，然而却对情绪表述上毫无意义，音乐也配的奇奇怪怪。不过拍出了那种疏离感，确实不是景深的原因，很多近景甚至特写都可以，还是没有找出其中原因，可能和环境音有关？不行不行真的不行，玩花活可能真的是靠天赋，通过一些孩子讲一些犀利的故事和历史事件，可能老老实实拍，效果会更好很多，现在情绪被极大削弱了，可惜！！要是10分制就好了，都打了三星，不代表在我心中此片和《燃烧》分数一样。PS:爱尔兰口音太土了，好可怕，哈哈～
没有功劳，更没有苦劳。我就特别纳闷儿年代戏年代感的还原有那么难吗？《间谍之妻》好歹还有那么一两场室外戏而且是真的有布景的，到这儿就一条街！？而且一条街都做不好？定场镜头就靠黑白滤镜航拍21年的贝尔法斯特（你看那个星星点点的光就知道那他妈绝对不是69年的样子）？妈呀……整个片子里其实一家人遇到的危机不少，问题就是您拍不出来啊。哎呦家里那叫一个体面整洁啊，这他妈是欠一屁股债的人住的地方吗？麻烦不要自我感动了好吗？别说《罗马》，《八月》都比这个强。
又是一部颁奖季热门，但是还是觉得没有达到预期，故事不是很生动，角色也没有什么刻画。
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