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."
我还以为会比想象中的更好。不过拍摄手法和配乐我都蛮喜欢的
女的漂亮男的讨喜 看完感叹社会在进步 然后睡个好觉
每一个小人物都是有血有肉的，不管是妓女还是街上的乞丐。她在镶金牙的时候说，你要把整个中国都塞进我的嘴里时，看笑了。CHINA 陶瓷牙，中国遍地是黄金，翻译也是绝了。点赞。
听说是真人真事，我真的发自内心的敬佩。但作为电影，我真的不觉得好看，人物没有成长的弧光，她的每一次向前我都不明白为什么那个男人会帮她，这个女性一定非常非常有魅力，但电影并没有表现出来，有点可惜。
僵硬而油腻的演技，浮于表面的人物塑造，太没有说服力的“女性主义”。爽文女王：全世界男人都爱她愿意为她做任何事。主人公换个性别，整个故事似曾相识。
但是小时候跟着大孩子走丢过
我从未见过如此杰克苏的女人。 我一度就想成为这种翘着二郎腿男女都调戏一下的女的，后来知道学名叫流氓。 人物确实扁平又工具，但伪女权的说法太过苛责，已经是无限强励志了，大佬的妹妹也不是谁都能当，起码先被剖个腹再有不怵的胆气。 最奇特的部分，也是缝合怪印度片的通病，就是他纯爱部分竟然拍的很牛逼，车里那段太牛逼了，别说女性主题了，就这段玛丽苏的调情戏姆们都拍不出来。 最后挺解气的就是，终于有为了大义牺牲男友的桥段了，不错，杨玉环直呼过瘾。
没被拐卖过
印度片一般充满了歌舞，至少在我来看比较肤浅，这一部却特别，一改以往的表面、歌舞花样、肤浅和苍白，变得深沉、克制、有力量。不仅从女性女权的意义上，而是从人的意义上，从尊严、文明的意义上，这片子是好片子，而且从励志，从人性的角度上，也是挖掘得很不错的片子。
太魔幻了，观影过程是还蛮有意思，但太魔幻了，3星
一整个爽文 虽然但是和年下小狗狗真的好好磕
当然，人生遇到的“人” 也非常重要！选择与努力，同等重要。
太长了。。。。 这片子有一个不错的背景故事，布景很用心，镜头有美感，但无奈故事编排能力实在太差，可以说相当草率原始
比国内的女性电影拍的好，女主颜过硬，痞范也加了分。整体故事看着就是爽文感，能看出来谋片就是要赢得更多观众。重要情节虽然都是俗套，观感还挺好的。 几个情节做的不错，1、写信。2、电话被接线员打断后的歇斯底里。可惜尾巴收的不好，收在演讲后的和记者对话就可以了。
但是关键时刻帮她的都是男人。
一个心中没有自己，却装着他人和天下的女人，注定是不败的，亦注定是孤独的。
这部电影必须要放在一定的时代背景下评价，抛开妓女和卖淫天生自带的原罪，女主在恶中开出了花，在一群黑玫瑰中出脱成一朵白莲。很多人纠结她这么快认定了自己的职业，我想在印度，男人一边享受着妓女带来的欢愉，女人一边也鄙视着自己同性的堕落，所以一个女孩一旦沦落风尘是会带着浓重的道德枷锁，无法被原来的家庭接受的。一旦认定了这个事实，女主的发展也就不再拧巴。既然改变不了这种现象，就让她们在最大程度上拥有应得的尊严。其实最后一段演讲多少是令人不适的，因为她的价值观早已超出了我们传统的道德范畴，包括电影里提到的卖淫合法化也让人无所适从，女主的观点有其局限性，但不可否认她在为一群现实存在的女性争取生存空间和权利。如何矛盾地看待甘古拜，也就能辩证地看待每个时代的灰色地带。
是怎样勇敢的灵魂，才能和这样的社会，家庭，命运斗争。是怎样智慧的灵魂，能单凭这小小的身躯战胜这些个强大的恶魔
能为弱势群体发声就是不错的。女主年轻了点，面相也不太符合角色需要的样子。
很难评价。评价有很多混淆了电影与人物故事。但重要的是你了解了这世上还有这个角落的人在这样生活，不是吗。确实有点太长了。
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