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."
然后黎明终将到来。
只有孩子适合拥有理想。请继续写作，写写过去和过去本该有的样子。
看的人很郁闷，但可能就是现实。一个濒临失业者邂逅了一段爱情，可是两个人都要前行，明显是男生太幼稚了，女生又很不舍，哎，加上那个时代背景，悲剧。
线上流媒体 豆瓣评分这部电影评分在8.2分左右
白色恐怖年代下政治性抑郁的文科博士。还是看到了很动人的爱，即便捧着一颗破碎的心到处游走最后还是会去爱。也看到极权统治对人的异化，战争前是这个样子的吗？开始了深深的忧虑…
【法国文化中心展映】惊喜万分。完全想不到时代背景设定在1930年代的电影也能拍得如此有现代感和活力。用最直接的手持摄影呈现扑面而来的现实感，营造出角色生活的种种细节，仿佛触手可及。开场以长镜头瞬间完成年代的切换迅速入戏，叙事剪辑很飞很炫，直至女主角出场随即进入正轨、渐入佳境，并逐渐叠加更多的温情。三小时篇幅描绘1931年山雨欲来前的柏林市井生活，也渐而塑造男主角的真诚、纯粹、可爱与坚守。友情、亲情、爱情每条线索都有动人的时刻，直击心灵：为好友的生命名节奔走呼号怒斥学术不正、和母亲无意间互换钞票饱含关爱、与恋人轰轰烈烈相爱&心心相印分离。上司、鸭店老鸨等配角也同样个性十足令人难忘。旁白有恰到好处的幽默和画龙点睛的妙评。散场时就像看完《横道世之介》一样，内心泛起满满的温暖和感动。我爱这部电影。
7/10 豆瓣简介里写的东西都没有看出来。我很敬佩导演的努力，但他也许更擅长拍TV，大银幕观众的体验他没有完全抓住，并不是镜头剪辑很乱很碎就体现了慌乱动荡。（关于手持镜头这事，我们得好好谈谈
继《兄妹的羁绊》《那田蜘蛛山篇》后，《鬼灭之刃》制作方又把TV版的部分集数内容经过剪辑重制成《柱众会议・蝶屋敷篇》。—— 听说由于《剧场版 无限列车篇》在日本票房大爆，接下来的故事内容打算继续制作成剧场版？呃，不拍番剧《鬼滅の刃 2期》了？
法比安和Julie简直是性格、境遇完全相反的两个人物，虽然更喜欢Julie一点，但是Fabian显然比糟糕的人拍的好。
法比安的墓志铭不是诗人、作家，或者被屠杀的犹太人，只是一个善良、正义的人，一个爱人。“生活是最伟大的工作”
看这阵势应该是最后的清闲时光了，鬼舞辻的阵和团灭下弦的场景好硬核，充满压迫感
6.法比安找到失踪已久，自甘堕落的朋友，看着周围人荒诞无稽的样子，也许堕落的朋友才是真正清醒的人
自由却凌乱的摄影机，镜头质感和剪辑多样到不太像是德国电影。想要拍社会环境下的个人史诗，却有点在炫技中迷失了重点
你在痛苦活着，失去爱人失去朋友，纳粹在身边忽隐忽现，世界崩塌的时候，一个不会游泳的人如何去拯救溺水的人？
*【2022-5-1下载再看】
当代版本的《三分钱歌剧》。法比安的故事遗落在报章档案之中，于不可逆历史中找到想象空间。不断前进的时间亦是灾难倒计时，法比安最终消失于正史，却在我们面前完成辉煌的短促的个人史。
打标签的时候想了想，虽然从电影中看到太多，看甜蜜走向悲凉，看一群人走到没有人，看庆贺走调成哀悼，看浪漫走样成无望的守望。一桩桩一件件洋洋洒洒，但它们拼接起来的东西，大概只能也只需要用“人生”这个标签来总结。
影片背景是魏玛末期的柏林，但不是讲的历史，更像是某种个人体验的思想史，外面政治动荡，时局愈发险恶，法比安试图在混乱中保留喘息的空间，但混乱不断侵蚀个人空间。前半个小时其实已经讲清楚内核，后面有点冗长。
20220618.三个小时，支离破碎，恍恍惚惚。。
我真的太喜欢这部电影了！我要把我所有的偏爱都给你！
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