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."
从杰出公民以来，两位导演合作的越来越差，笑点包袱创意都挺足的，结果真正涉及到主竞赛才这么一点，坐拥几位大明星，演这个本子是真的吃力不讨好
每个人的刻板印象和作品本身呈现的刻板印象。冲突之后就会和解，怕只是创作者的美好愿景罢了。（顽固不化的人私以为只有走马灯才会将其融化。人类这种生物，赶紧毁灭吧啊。）
戏如人生 人生如戏
观影体验太赞了，整部片特别神经质，一本正经的drama，设定在影视圈又特别的合理，女主的表演很加分，不疯成不了导演哈哈哈。
2022.05.01. PE早场。这么好看的电影，在大片夹击之下的排片少的可惜。戏中戏，都不算是“片场电影”、应该叫“排练场电影”。剧本由前80%的“自我的艺术家+自我的男明星+自我的古怪女导演”的三角【喜剧】，到突然急转直下、再到最终反转，不仅让观众跟随三位“电影主创”体会“鬼才导演+名演员”在电影开拍前所经历的折磨人的排练过程，更在最后跳出了电影、让戏外的两位主演的命运与戏内高度重合，给出【命运弄人】的收尾，很佳。Penelope Cruz真是个天才女演员，她把一个敏感脆弱、“天才魔鬼共同体”般的导演演的惟妙惟肖，时刻游走在喜剧、剧情、甚至悲情戏之间，几次都靠瞬间的眼神特写来给出转变，强的不可思议。62岁的班德拉斯叔依然魅力不减，自我沉醉的男明星角色简直是信手拈来。惊艳的年度好片。
戏剧性拉满，不愧是《杰出公民》的导演班底，自反自嘲也够疯癫，奖杯粉碎机真是没谁了。然而荒诞过后的真实不够触及内里，借力打力终是徒有其表，可惜三主演的精湛演出。
靠剧本和演员托举的讽刺喜剧，导演只做了伪cinema的工作，讽刺的也不过是一个剧组里最容易想象的情况，故事里擦边现实和电影行业的地方，是一种high点，最出色的还是演员的表演，导演在视听上做不到的虚假细节暗示，反而演员靠微表情的细节给到了。这部电影本身就是讽刺吧，一个拿了金棕榈和金狮的天才女导演，拍的主竞赛电影竟然是这种水平。
没有后悔药吃的，，，互相原谅之后，，，这个父亲怎么原谅自己，，，豆瓣应该增加一个标签，，，专门标注这种，，，就能避开，，，
太精彩了！特别适合在电影院看，看两人互掐很有气氛。table read的细节非常真实了——什么一句晚安念十几次，什么6.5分醉，把导演的随心所欲刻画得入木三分。Julia就是西班牙版姚安娜。一人分饰兄弟是在说Fargo 3和伊万男神吗？像《狗镇》一样的影视舞台化呈现也很精彩。导演可能有建筑fetish，看完好想去这个foundation美丽的空间里工作。
如导演之前的《犬猿》一样激烈和戏剧冲突不断，结局倒是处理得有几分温柔。希望自己记住这部不太起眼的电影，记住这个固执倔强不肯认错，但其实内心无法原谅自己的父亲。
极度灰色的电影，还能道歉还能反省的社会总留一线希望。春节期间听修隧道的工作人员讲。工地上的意外死亡事件处理非常快，需要谈的就是钱的数字，死者儿女都不愿意见亡者一面。冷漠到极致。
父母离异跟随父亲居住的初中生花音在超市里面偷东西被超市店长抓住，花音在逃跑时横穿马路被第一辆汽车撞到后又被大货车碾压，父亲添田根本不相信女儿会偷东西，去找超市要说法，怀疑女儿在学校被霸凌又去学校要说法，媒体也来凑热闹，但是媒体为了博人眼球对事情进行了断章取义，而汽车撞到人的女司机想要得到原谅却一而再再而三遭到添田的拒绝，而超市店长只想要能冷静的处理事情，可是在无良媒体和过分热情到帮倒忙的店员努力下店铺不得不关闭，一直得不到原谅的女司机最终承受不了自己心里的压力而自杀，一个小小的偷窃如蝴蝶效应一样最终死了两个人，倒闭了一家店，3个家支离破碎
其实一直对这帮子学院派没什么太高期待，甚至刚开始看的时候觉得这布景这选角这味也太阿莫多瓦了，乃们西班牙是不是没别人了，但后边慢慢开始渐入佳境，台词很有趣，结尾也很喜欢，真的不错，年度十佳预定了
飙戏精，像煎牛排？3分？5分？7分熟？哈哈哈！喜欢这种调侃，给装B一种理由！
旬报No.7。最大感触是，古田新太长得和秋元康真像。剧作基本上是野岛伸司《人间失格》后期复仇的低配版，任何时候，受害者最需要的都是诚挚的道歉，而一开始没有愧疚感的人遇上一根筋的受害者家属就构成了影片最大的冲突。只是由没有监控而造成事件空白实在是牵强甚至是儿戏，而恰恰全篇人物所着重的争议点就在这个有没有偷东西的空白上，于是更显拙劣。另外人物塑造太过扁平单薄，各种细节严重失真，剧情推动非常刻意，在店主企图自杀后全片更是一路崩坏。真的拍得挺烂，不是很懂这片是怎么评得上旬报十佳的。
很压抑…搞垮一个有良知的人实在太容易了 反而像父亲这样的人才会把痛苦都转嫁给别人身上以此来逃避自己对女儿生前的刻薄冷漠
第一个想夸的竟然是这个取景地的空间感，完全不像是试读剧本和排练的地方，但是又和这个非常artificial vibe的故事很搭
很好笑，非常有意思，也有很多视听上的设计。这就是看电影的乐趣呀。
让人看出了阿莫多瓦在西班牙电影界的影响力有多大。
短小又真情。虽然没有很复杂，但是人心复杂又温暖又陈无法避免他人责任啊
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