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."
boring 难怪票房不好。我要是制片人打死都不会投这种片。
男人之间用决斗来解决纷争，特别是爱情方面的，如普希金，法国数学天才埃瓦里斯特·伽罗华。
这不是罗生门，是对同一件事的不同角度描述，某些小白不要人云亦云。另外达蒙演的丈夫只是爆燥，不懂人情世故，也许不是好丈夫，但绝对不是某些带节奏的描述是人渣和坏人
开头真的闷，后面进入罗生门剧情以后才渐入佳境，而直到最后，决斗的那场戏才真正让人心跳不止
什么罗生门，赤裸裸的绞杀与视而不见的冷漠组成的厌女联盟罢了，配合评论区某些言论整个一大型世界屠宰场，每天一个乞求世界毁灭的理由
罗生门式的结构，同一个事件，不同角色的表述，则是不同的故事，内核倒是还挺女权的。值得推敲的是同一个事件，不同视角下的感受，达蒙视角下自己是一家之主，是妻子的庇护，但是在妻子的视角下，达蒙是个粗暴自负只重注面子不会关心的野蛮人，类似的对比，德莱弗的视角是深情浪漫的，女人的视角是粗鲁无礼的。我还以为会有什么扯谎，需要观众自行判断，没想到故事这么清晰，反倒失去了一些趣味
お疲れ様でした。十年間ありがとう。
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女权倒不一定是这片里最应该被人看见的，也有可能是客观评价过去的自己，确实很难吧。女主的视角，说实话谁也保证不了一定客观。
第一悲情男和第二普信男的视角里，女性是严重被物化的对象，第三视角告诉我们，在冷冽粗暴的男权底色上，仍有微弱的女性坚持自己的色彩自己涂抹。可悲是类似的戏码千百年来依旧在上演，幸运是女人不用再将自己的命运系于男人间的生死之搏。朱迪很棒，在一众老戏骨里，表现依然可圈可点。
自私暴躁的骑士丈夫，虚荣不自知“凤凰男”，以及处处被当作工具的妻子，三个人物，三个视角，层层递进。第三章真正从女性视角出发，展现了中世纪对于女性的压迫和桎梏，女人们永远只是男人追求财富和权力的工具，更有借古讽今的意味。虽然是部中世纪历史片，但我愿称之为真正的女权主义片
本来以为分成3个章节，能给我们3个主观视角，没想到都是一样的，很多涉及多人场景的镜头都是重复的。。还以为至少能做出The Affair的感觉。。。
本来以为分成3个章节，能给我们3个主观视角，没想到都是一样的，很多涉及多人场景的镜头都是重复的。。还以为至少能做出The Affair的感觉。。。
小变态太美了，马达扮相好凶好丑，司机很欲，大本一头黄发吊儿郎当满嘴fuck笑的牙龈都看到了是怎么回事阿
就算是adam driver又怎样?最后还不是要被果体示众~~~本来以为是个动作片片，其实是一个关于人性和欲望的片子~哪有什么真爱，在那个年代背景下女性地位真是可悲~女主好美!
罗生门三重叙述的多有重叠拖沓不够精悍，其它没毛病，片尾决斗拍的好极。女权在中世纪，看谁敢欺负小变态(ง'-̀'́)ง 4＋
刚看完觉得为女性发声，服化道不错，表现手法新颖，忍不住叫好。睡了一觉醒来想想，三个视角但不是罗生门，导演的意图太明显了，用明示和暗示来表达自己的观点，让人很容易总结中心思想。
很稳，也很无聊。在拍摄有不同素材的情况下，仍在三重视角的前述叙事中没有明显的差异化，在以悬念牵动走向的类型预期下，这样的执行效果可能还不如《金刚川》。
我真是不懂为什么要用罗生门的拍法来讲女性遭受的不公？罗生门的拍法不就是每个人都在说谎吗？你最后抹去truth或者抹去玛格丽特的truth任何一个就好，直接就是某个人的视角就是truth，不是这么玩儿的呀老爷子。结构上的鸡贼，内容上的讨巧，某人的视角就是truth，你要女性叙事为什么非要搞几乎平行的罗生门结构？女性叙述不配你的客观叙述吗？弄一个玛格丽特的真相就是真相嵌套在罗生门结构里，谁信呀？有意思吗？吗？吗？还不如看本马特搞基。
令人失望的裹脚布破产版罗生门，编剧和导演都很偷懒还沾沾自喜。两段他说拍成流水账，而重头戏的她说对女性困境的描写也流于表面。
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