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."
作为儿童向拍成这样子已经很nice了，血浆都是blingbling的，撕裂蜘蛛，黑暗独角兽和老巫婆的造型足以让小盆友们惊声尖叫了，杀时间的片子不能期待更多。
恐怖当催眠曲的女巫 吸收仙气的女人？？？一个小保姆 还有一个儿童写手？？？一头雾水
故事结构并不连贯，人物立不起来，一切都在按照编剧想当然的发展，Kate完全就是一个bitch啊，相比之下M简直小天使。唯一能看的也就只有颜值了。
中下水平的一部电影。作为一部儿童恐怖片，影片不可能真的有多恐怖，这也造成影片本身缺乏亮点，正邪双方的故事本身就有些平平淡淡，男主讲的几个睡前恐怖故事，也并没有给人感觉有多恐怖，探案悬疑的部分算是有些亮点，讲故事时呈现的一些画面比较有童趣，但依然撑不起整部电影，另外就是现在欧美不敢黑黑人了，就开始黑黄种人了，如果不是在黑的话，为何结尾男主讲述自己的故事时，他的朋友一定是一个亚洲人，还是各种嫌弃男主，并会引发观众讨厌的亚洲人？实在是有些太刻意了。另外就是，女主明明拿了变女巫的药，也用了，为什么不先去拯救被变成人偶的朋友们，这会不会有些太自私了？结尾还刻意给了那些人偶镜头，这是想表达他们被遗忘了，所以很惨？整体来说就是个流水线下的作品，并不推荐。
还蛮喜欢这个阴郁潮湿的感觉～水怪最后看的时候甚至有些可爱～剧情还可以
整体来说，没啥新意，很早中国版咖喱辣椒比这部有意思，法国式幽默，夹杂着血腥和暴力，碎嘴带着色情，很多元素都涉及，公路飙车，枪战笼战都没有很出色表现出来，只能说表现平平。只是能顺畅的把故事讲完而已。
完成度挺高的恐怖片。不过，大人看了不会觉得很恐怖。我感觉出现的怪物全部算是玩具。
因为配音组去看的哈哈哈奇怪的理由 开头就是太康的声音！片子本身剧情挺一般的 也不是很恐怖
估计看过的人会陆续进来打低分，但我觉得这片子做的还挺用心，比那些玩烂梗洗钱硬植入的野鸡网大好多了。应该鼓励国产惊悚片的创作。不抱希望反而有点小惊喜。
配乐挺好听的，就是总感觉有股小时代味儿……
感觉还不错啊，画面有质感，剧情也还比较完整，演员演技都在线，剧情有点像河神
这女巫不是绝命毒师里面的jane吗！另外穿山甲说了什么？
本来看了评分不想看 但是又真的很好奇能烂成什么样 可能期望太低所以反而觉得很好看 还好做好了不百合的心理准备 看的人心烦但是却又是真实世界的黑暗面 不想接受也得接受 平时可以捂着眼睛假装看不见就不存在的人性的恶 被赤裸裸的展现 又会回归到一个问题上面 是不是真的有钱人才会宽容 穷人总是大概率像女主这副德行 为什么女性的关系总是相爱相杀 唯一笑了的一处就是 “你和你的姐妹3P？”哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈 那不然你俩是什么关系呢 3p炮友？M好蛊 我有被迷住 最后的结局甚至不知道女主对M的影响 究竟是积极的还是消极的 在面对这个世界固化阶级的不公平的时候 像我这种垃圾可能早早就放弃了 从这点上来说 女主真的很有毅力 但是备不住无路可走时候的拼死一搏 可以思考的东西蛮多的一部电影 不难看
剧情的趣味性，故事的恐怖感，没有一个能及格，只有小朋友的演技可以支撑。
这部评分低但是还可以 适合小孩子看 暗黑童话题材，小演员的演技都不错，夜光苗圃的镰刀骷髅头挺有意思，望不到尽头的图书室也挺让人向往 魔女好美..！会吃人的巫婆 虽然故事情节老套 但是没那么无聊。觉得这部电影同时也在告诉小朋友不要轻易的去否定自己，从而放弃自己的梦想爱好👌🏻
网大很不错了！弟弟也太惨了！为啥姐姐没变身？
M真的太美了。越看越能理解为什么导演选她来演这个又倔强又脆弱的角色。虽然情节上有一点点跳跃，但感情刻画的还是很细腻，很耐心地给对白流了很多时间，不错，为女孩子们。
这是我至今为止看过最好看的恐怖片，，赶潮流。现在中国的恐怖片有很大的进步，加油！
各种标签…以及太冗长了…唯一高光部分是开着悍马在抄近路追逐那一段…
爱听恐怖故事的女巫，故事中再包含几个小故事，低配版本的黑暗中讲述的恐怖故事，故事有一定反转，但总体是比较积极的主角结局。
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