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."
凑活看吧，如果放电影院，我是肯定不会花钱看的。
#BJIFF2021 No.2#北影节主竞赛单元影片，映后还有质量较高的主创见面活动，主创与观众一同全程观看的影片。全片摄影和美术令人印象深刻，其他方面属于一般水平，在资金有限的情况下一部战争片完成到这种程度实属不易。影片故事的大框架像《1917》，风格像《风吹麦浪》，尽管一些地方有似曾相识之感，但仍可见主创在艺术探索方面所做的努力。本片大概值三颗星，但冲着这样怀着赤诚之心为中国电影积极做出探索的主创团队，值得再为他们加一颗星。
上个月已阅的片子，同系列还有一步，不是影院片，个人觉得还ok
作为网络电影，崔志佳算是最用心的导演了！二手月季最适合为这部电影做主题曲了，太适合了！
已经算是近几年东北文化主题电影里，比较有文化层次的类型了。
段子和小品拼成的电影，那我觉得我现在其实也能当个编剧。
在我的印象里，喜剧比悲剧难拍，悲剧总是因为它的结局而更让人印象深刻，唤出你的泪水，而喜剧，总感觉嬉皮笑脸，似乎和严肃搭不上边。这当然是刻版印象，但从豆瓣的评分上也可以看出持有这种印象的人还不少。用喜剧的方式来解释一个沉重的话题，用嬉笑的幽默来解释死亡和告别，或许这是东北文化里一个独特的文化现象。他们太苦了，以至于没有这层糖衣这药丸甚至都无法吞下。而观众们却往往只看到这层略有些粗糙的糖衣，却忽视了那层糖衣内部的东西。
单独几段当小品还有点意思，整体来看纯粹浪费时间！
#北影节主竞赛单元# 三星半，这不是一部战争片，这就是惊悚电影，在反围剿时期红军挺进师这样一个题材下，竟然拍出最特别的元素，晦暗的画面和配乐烘托，各种心理惊悚场景被放置其中，尤其以最后爆炸声后一场血雨染红主角全身，简直带有cult感，尸体、残肢、中枪流血，这些带来的残酷既有视觉上的生猛，又接洽了惊悚场面。剧本不算很好的，可竟然可以拿一个电视电影的剧本，就靠做氛围把这个片子提到一个特别的层次。另外方言配音也是存在混音不够好的问题。总得来说，3分的配音，4分的表演，5分的剧本，6分的视觉风格，居然能做出7分的惊悚氛围感。不够好，但太特别。
结构上差那么一点，赵大明白的戏往前挪，刀爷的戏放在最后。现在的结构情绪混乱又拉跨。刀爷的角色设计是不错的，可惜力度有点过。也可能是考虑网大受众的口味。喜剧点到后半段基本上没了就很莫名其妙。
社会上还是需要更多的包容性
把所有好看的片段全剪到预告片了。其实本来就好好搞笑一下可以不？有笑点呀！为什么非要强行煽情或者突生波折呢？就好好办好葬礼，搞笑一点啊。前面还不错，越到后面越不好看。二星过少，三星过多。害！
就图一乐。因为老四黑社会那段拿捏的死死的，所以看了下，这不能算电影，搞笑片段合集。
真不好看 这种过于理想化的剧情就是 笑也笑不出来 哭也哭不出来 如鲠在喉
剧情还是完整的，虽然也用了夸张的手法，但是至少是好好讲了故事的。
当长篇小品看的，隔离一个多月心情肯定是不好了，放低期望，放低笑点，超过期待
为了几个片段看完整部电影，还行吧，一部充满迷影情节的网大。
《人生大事》没哭上，在这先乐够呛。 殡葬➕满释➕摇滚，有点像《再见那一天》，相比起来，幽默很多，没那么沉重。梗挺多，但不俗，有些暗暗的讽刺梗，特别有意思。立意主题没放在死亡，而是活的人身上，最后拔高那块也挺喜欢的。 二手月季那…真的绷不住了，我是死亡摇滚，哈哈哈哈哈哈哈。
就像主角看教父学葬礼一样，态度很好，但不会电影语言———我错了，态度好个屁
无聊刷了部网大，虽然不咋好看，但是感觉明白了点编剧上的道理
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