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."
摄影、画面、动作还不错，故事不算新鲜，总感觉有别的作品的影子，这也是武侠片最难突破的地方。比较遗憾的是，谢苗的打斗动作缺乏特点，难以给人留下强烈的印象。
摄影很好，有用心做画面设计。故事比较简单。
这片是有人打了招呼还是咋的，打个二星还发不出广播了？
刚从徐克的魔改狄仁杰过来，相比之下，这部电影明显在台词设计，镜头运用等很多方面显得稚嫩，但是比魔狄系列好看太多，中国武侠的文化是什么，初心是什么，不是叠加一堆特效就能显示的。
简单粗暴，昆汀附体，就是血浆还少了点儿。我的武侠魂又烧起来了啊...
p.s 卖酒女孩刚开始的扮相也太像小枫了。
故事好糙，琵琶女这个角色没什么必要啊，睁眼拔刀那里挺带劲的，感觉很努力想要给其他角色一些层次，但这么糙的故事也没啥空间了，就还行吧
这不就是演的唐山事件吗？只是所有网友演的那个心不瞎的瞎子
跟前两天看的那个《山村狐妻》刚好可以对照着来看。这个明显就感觉到，影像质感是有的，导演也挺会拍的，很多镜头包括光线调度都是精心设计过的，但是另一方面，内容上就显得相对单薄了。当然，故事难有难的讲法，简单也有简单的讲法，这样一个切口很小的故事来做减法也不是不可以，但是人物塑造上就会显得稍微弱了一些。不说别的，瞎子听力这么好，别人全家被灭了，噼里啪啦声音那么大，他睡在一边愣是完全没醒？这酒度数这么高吗……
剧情比较平淡，但整体很流畅。
武侠之味已经很浓，但是对于反派两位高手描写过于浅薄。
天，我哭得好大声。我要给最后那段vlog十颗星。 （虽然嫁潮汕男真的要慎重 放大标红加粗 但是如果真的有正缘这种东西，就是无论如何都不会错过的那种吧
情节推进较慢，但瑕不掩玉，神州浩瀚，不应只有一种声音，一种镜头，一种电影，希望越来越多，具有地方浓厚特色的电影，出现在大荧幕上，优币驱逐劣币，让现在荧幕上的牛鬼蛇神无所遁形
能看到这么优秀的网大实属不易，剧情虽然很简单简单，但是动作戏份、人物演技这些没得说，动作戏份我居然看出了《绣春刀》内味，台词有点弱，希望以后可以增强。
动作戏加一星鼓励。。。大家都说剧情简单，这哪是简单？这剧情 简直是降智，全员人物单薄 太过服务于剧情，潦草，太多地方为了装而装。
简单明快古装武侠短片，完成度还可以，算是网剧中的上品~~~
确实惊艳，侠义的精神阐述很到位，这就叫武侠，动作干脆利落，不枉谢苗的一身好功夫。别看演员年纪轻轻，功底还是很到位。成瞎子演的好，就是这个气息，就是这个味道，了无牵挂，但是执中贯一。导演厉害，细节讲究，有几处点睛之笔，比如瞎子拔刀时睁开了眼，耳边有沙场的声音奔腾。配乐也应景。算是看过最武侠的武侠片了
确实惊艳，侠义的精神阐述很到位，这就叫武侠，动作干脆利落，不枉谢苗的一身好功夫。别看演员年纪轻轻，功底还是很到位。成瞎子演的好，就是这个气息，就是这个味道，了无牵挂，但是执中贯一。导演厉害，细节讲究，有几处点睛之笔，比如瞎子拔刀时睁开了眼，耳边有沙场的声音奔腾。配乐也应景。算是看过最武侠的武侠片了
前半段特别的好，到了深圳之后不免落入俗套，妈妈的形象像极了许多潮汕母亲。
2022春节档以来最好看的电影。就是外地媳妇去见家长的簡單故事，情感真实的电影。可以看得出导演有点小企图，虽然有些镜头稚嫩但还是蛮用心。和爱情神话一样是一部方言电影，因此除了故事本身，影片地域感也带给我们不一样的体验。在什么都严重同质化的现在显得非常的珍贵。
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