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."
剧情有些套路化，但是人物刻画很动人。最喜欢汪春梅，坚韧的女性角色。
中国军人用血肉之躯筑起长城，保卫祖国山河无恙，历史将永远铭记他们，人民将永远铭记他们！
快被磨平了，对上层建筑的态度基本倒转，但能做的部分都做得足够好了，留存在生理层面的体察心和兼容类型的真实触感仍然可贵。能认同宁浩和文牧野们在践行的中庸之道，比很多人强，撑下去吧。
身处深圳一大早看的热血沸腾热泪盈眶 不是打鸡血 奋斗嘛 明天一定会更好
也就是还行吧，关注现实但太过毒鸡汤，感觉像是一部春节献礼的命题作文，看了导演的这部电影，也就是一部电影，离开表达，导演也不是导神。哈哈哈
看看就好了了，社会底层其实不是这种样子的，只有形似没有灵魂，电影确实美好，美好的有些不真实。很多事情有些时候很难。景浩妹妹一出来就很难过，因为钱无能为力太让人难过了。
还是罗翔老师清醒:“离开了他人的帮助、命运的加持，自己可能什么都不是，自己要做的就是演好命运给自己的剧本。”
飞机从头顶掠过，炮火在耳边砸穿。战场越是残酷，火车那一幕万里河山就越是珍贵。乱石阵发现自己和身边的观众呼吸都加快，最大的想法——捏死美国鬼子。
感觉和《药神》一样好 完美的商业片教学 无可挑剔的节奏 剪辑 表演 完成度真是没得说了 不知怎么夸给个五星吧😅😅
胡军的那个角色太感人了 整体而言还不错吧 特别喜欢最后那个几个战士被冻住的镜头 特别像雕像 庄严肃穆 画面整体色调有种油画的感觉 缺点的话打的部分感觉可以再删一些 看的有点累
为生在这样的中国而自豪！看得热血沸腾，但故事叙事有些混乱，是因为战争片吗？讲的不是一个点，而是一个面？
因为几年前药神这部处女作的惊艳，对文牧野导演的第二部作品一直有比较高的期待，买了早场。事实证明这部片子没枉费我熬夜又早起，很有诚意，文牧野导演对现实主义题材的把控一如既往的稳，社会性，娱乐性，灵魂性的平衡，还得还得是文牧野。易烊千玺这次的戏份特别重，他的表现对这部电影十分关键，可幸四字完全撑起了景浩这个角色，他就是景浩。进去后好奇这部电影如何讲述幸福，出来时我确实深受慰藉，我要二刷
3.5 我们都知道后半段几无可能发生在普通人身上
1. 关键时刻为什么组织不出手给个创业基金，这样即能创业成功又能体现我们的优越性？2.演员表演还是挺好的。
除了无用的肉体自杀和精神逃避，还有第三种自杀的态度，那就是坚持奋斗，以此对抗人生的荒谬。 —加缪
没创过业的觉得成功凭借的是一个睿智看懂商机的个人英雄，创过业的都知道成功无非是有一群有情有义的朋友在咬紧牙关拼命熬
主席说的没错，打得一拳开，免得百拳来，这场仗我们不想打，但又不得不打，那个时候我们的志愿军用血肉和意志保卫了祖国，才有了我们今天的生活，中国走到今天真的太难了，致敬先烈。
看的时候想到的事是自己的孩子不再活在有硝烟的世界，感到工作都有了干劲，好好工作。
11.5晚，难得和父母们一同走近影院，上一次同看的电影还是《红海行动》。观影体验极大优于《第一炉香》，画面质感，灯光均比《第一炉香》高级。可能是几位导演合拍的原因，各自几段戏都酣畅淋漓，最终组合出高潮迭起的观感，但也让衔接不够自然，并未浑然一体，结尾收的也较弱，可以更好。烽烟滚滚唱英雄，期待那部更好的抗美援朝电影。
主席说的没错，打得一拳开，免得百拳来，这场仗我们不想打，但又不得不打，那个时候我们的志愿军用血肉和意志保卫了祖国，才有了我们今天的生活，中国走到今天真的太难了，致敬先烈。
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