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."
希腊，车祸，医院，警察……开始的部分不就是我。后来嘛，超能力和对抗秘密组织的行事动机都实在太说不过去，风土、街景和当下政治倒是融入得还行。
前半段男主非常主动（不太喜欢这个时候的男主），是两人某个艺术的契合点让彼此看到了自己的灵魂，后半段迷幻一样的情节，无缘无故消失还是在和姐姐私奔后消失。后半段情节有点掉尾，但喜欢男主的一个转变。离开老师那段彼此拥抱哭泣，此时只有这两个人是真正互相理解对方的，渴望能找到志趣相投，可以找到迷失的灵魂。也许最后男主最后找到了迷失的自己，虽然痛苦但把刻骨铭心的爱恋写成了一本书：To The Man at the Lake！
糊了，完全都电影名和宣传带歪了。。本以为有类似《绝岭雄风》的场面，没想到就是一顿渣操作。
听说后半段会崩，所以我看到一半先把我的想法记录下来。出乎意料地好看，尤其是画面和配乐，美又恰到好处。有人说这是印度版的CMBYN，但这版本的却更得我心，可能是意版太美太精致以至于我无法相信，也可能是我太想听角色通过第一人称叙述他的想法，而非通过面部和肢体的表达。片中男主所经历的、写下的，我大多都能体会，热带夏天的夜，骑车在不平的山路上，青春期对周围男性的 “欣赏、试探、喜爱”的深切和欣喜，有喜欢之人陪伴之满足。学生时代离我越来越远，我怕我终将会没法回忆起当时窜动的心情，终将会暂缓思考，那会是一件很可怕的事情。
画面却还比较漂亮，只是兄妹两个爱上一个人比较狗血，还有很多场景明显有CMBYN的痕迹。A番男主看起来不讨巧
画面却还比较漂亮，只是兄妹两个爱上一个人比较狗血，还有很多场景明显有CMBYN的痕迹。A番男主看起来不讨巧
充满抱负的作家爱上了家里的神秘租客，而他自由奔放的妹妹也爱上了此人。接下来发生的事件撼动了他们传统的家庭。
本想给三星，可是全篇就2女演员，其中一个还开场就领盒饭了，差评
一场女友意外死亡牵扯出一个绑架案，到处躲避警察追杀，前期比后期精彩，整体来说还行片荒可以一看
小镇黑警，垂直山崖，列车急停，左翼同盟，地铁刺客，美帝轴心，暴动追踪，手刃恶人；疲劳驾驶翻车神谕乱入脱欧政治阴谋，又或希腊穷游攻略，老派好看；片名/主角名算是致敬贝克特荒诞戏剧啥的吗？
节奏太缓慢了，演技有点尴尬，色彩和构图不错，诗写得挺好，老师明明甩男友100条街好不好。
稍稍有点不太现实 但 挺刺激 哈哈
由于不合理之处太多台词也很弱很想给导演编剧写女主纸条上的七个字母之感。
很好的题材，可惜拍得差了点。反派男一号的歇斯底里大呼小叫太上不了台面，也让故事的逻辑混乱多BUG。妹子的攀岩功夫不行，还能够连克四夫，实在太过牵强。最后，妹子BF岩壁上求婚时摔下去的桥段，简直就是在侮辱攀岩人士
结局没看懂，男主怎么看到酒店就知道女枪手要去哪，红发男孩就在后备箱？
总之 如果电影贴近现实 那这个渣男就成就了导演家里的俩个人 也不亏
以个人的血肉之躯试图在政治的角力中挣扎出一条活路，以“错误的人”的模式承载出一个悲剧性，伤痕累累的角色。
明知是故事，依旧跟着提心吊胆惊心动魄，就说明编得演得都棒棒哒，再加上大山大景大远眺的壮丽……四星啊！
有一个新颖和猎奇的开始，但没有将这种惊喜延续到片尾的能力，跟悬疑片挖坑不填同理，看完想骂街是正常心理。
我觉得是一部很有意义的电影，不仅讨论了印度的传统对女性和同性恋的限制，而且还探讨了人生问题，比如面对孤独，勇于追求等，超级希望是HE！
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