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."
我一直觉得意大利语是不适合吵架的，因为太慢条斯理。这部同志家庭的婚后生活比开心麻花更具笑点和泪点，让人大开眼界。每一次反转都让儿子遭受一千点暴击。真庆幸里昂诞生在一个富裕家庭，一个观念开放的社会。电影用片中片的形式拍摄，很聪明提高了不少真实感。
很可爱的青春家庭片，主题外扯了不少闲篇，倒也并不割裂，男主角好帅
好温暖，有一颗童心的人，善良的人都会喜欢的电影。会想起自己的小时候，真好的动画电影。七个小故事都特别生动，中国的动画电影，加油加油
值得推荐。
最后片尾出现的family tree把我笑死 温馨有趣的爆米花电影
异性恋的家庭可以养育出同性恋子女，而异性恋同样可以在同性家庭健康成长。很新颖的话题。 @2022-03-07 00:49:07
《小兔的问题》，《小火车》，《蒯老伯的糖水铺》，《哼将军和哈将军》，《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》
爱 童年 温暖 光 亲子 家园 成长 分离 孝顺 自我 治愈
有点drama 不过这就是意大利。男女颜值都好高，甜甜的学生恋爱，我也想拥有。
1月16日，上映第二天，下午4点45分的场，影厅里只有3对父母和我。从第一个故事开始就哭得停不下来，给孩子讲的故事总是温暖纯粹得令人心酸，和大众化CG动画相比，独立动画导演的呈现效果也让人眼前一亮。1个多小时的片子，很短，如果想要治愈自己，强烈建议！
想说，电影就是电影，现实就是现实，(后面涉及剧透)
确实抓马，但一点不会反感，反而增添趣味，各方面都挺喜欢，感觉刚好。“金继”这几句台词跟Killing Eve最后一集Eve主持婚礼时说的几乎一样，除了是传统工艺名词还是解释亲密关系的专用名词吗=_=
意大利人说话果然一定要配手势（看完之后发第一感想）；故事强行happy ending了，妈的保罗到最后啥都没有（第二感想）；人果然要为了家庭和婚姻牺牲很多；不爱了就分开没必要将就。换成异性恋会很狗血的那种故事。
挺优秀的绘本动画片。以简单的故事，童真的视角呈现/捕捉亲人之间/人与人之间细腻的情感，有力量，很温暖，很治愈。画风多为可爱，个别故事有戳到我。
四星以资鼓励，希望我们国产动画重塑辉煌。总体来说，是一个充满中式本土人文关怀的作品集，充满温暖的人性观察，点滴小事中美好尽显。诚然在部份叙事和衔接上，还有进一步提升空间，但画风在我看来真的很惊喜，终于不再是欧美审美，特别喜欢《哼将军和哈将军》的画风。故事层面上，最喜欢《小兔子的问题》和《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》，妈宝女如我看小兔子那段莫名其妙在影院里泪流满面。唯一必须要吐槽的，就是河南人为什么叫外婆…我简直不能忍，请用“姥姥/姥娘”好吗！！！
34567都很好，12没有打动我。3的故事性最好，4的转场镜头相对最成熟，而且情感也很充沛，尤其落脚点是城市里那些不被人看见的一群人，很温暖，也很伤感。个人最喜欢5，完全是导演个人回忆散文，这种充斥着导演私人情感的作品注定是不可复制的。6的童趣刚刚好，7各方面都很好，但是个人不是很喜欢导演略带浪漫化的处理方式，也许孩子长大后回忆起来会很好，但是我想身处其中时，自有其辛苦吧。
出轨就是不行，和小三在一起？？？？？？抱歉！！！我的三观不允许我这么做！！！！
原本以为只是无性别差的家庭闹剧 没想到最后升华了啊…… 革命尚未成功 同志仍需努力…… 日本金继的比喻很精妙……
2021年北影节首映，让我多次潸然泪下。七个故事无比温暖且阳光，充满积极向上的力量。虽然影片宣传词着重强调绘本动画，但我更愿意称之为艺术动画。作为艺术动画，算不算第一部我不知道，但现今中国的艺术动画真的是太少了，只能在一些学生作品的短片里看到一些。所以这部动画电影真的是一个非常好的尝试。希望中国动画由此打开一扇新的窗户，迎接更明亮的未来！
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