剧情介绍

  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."

评论:

  • 卫定钧 5小时前 :

    已经耄耋之年的东木的新作,不好说是老骥伏枥、宝刀未老什么的,而是我鲜少见的:温柔的东木。有着他曾经影片中最熟悉的元素,却放弃了不犀利不深入的悲伤故事,讲了一个平铺直叙,甚至没有什么高潮点,一老人,一少年,和一只鸡跨越美墨边境的故事,像是他的人生自传一样,像是对那个西部牛仔年代,还拿着枪的东木的致敬和怀念,转眼间已是拖着一身老骨头,给年轻一代讲他的所理解的世俗的老头了。他这次的转变,像是我最喜欢的小说家,写起了散文的感觉。

  • 司寇问凝 2小时前 :

    情节之间僵硬脱节,不是很好的剧作。老牛仔的暮年哀伤,我相信东木自己是接受时代和岁月变迁的,但是对于一个几乎将自己2/3人生都贡献给电影的人多少还是能看出他的不甘心和不消停(褒义)。希望老爷子长命百岁,我认为对于东木的最好结局是逝于片场吧。

  • 子强 4小时前 :

    91 years old man still making fim and playing the last cowboy in the world, we couldn't ask for anything more, could we?

  • 呼泰初 8小时前 :

    92岁时你会在做什么?克林特伊斯特伍德还在制作拍摄并主演着自己的电影。

  • 仆宵雨 5小时前 :

    这部看得百感交集,哀叹老爷子的老去,更惊叹老爷子的一切。上一部他导和演的《骡子》,比这部要好看得很多,而之后的《理查德朱维尔的哀歌》更是让人跪服。不管老爷子是心有余而力不足还是刻意为之,我觉得都可以理解。毕竟这是你能看到的屈指可数的90岁以上高龄的导演和演员的作品了。好好珍惜吧,可以的话我希望老爷子能导和演到一百岁。

  • 彬敏 0小时前 :

    哪里哭泣了呢害我一直担心。太老了,实在想不到还有什么魅力让那个寡妇爱上这个真的老的老头。故事也比较平淡。一般般

  • 凌莲 3小时前 :

    画外:91岁的东木老先生不仅为自己准备了一场马戏,还准备了两场吻戏。

  • 偶乐和 4小时前 :

    东木老爷子90多岁还亲自导&演,不知道会不会是最后一部。片中许多细节都使人动容,音乐也很赞。要爱护老年人。爱啊…

  • 寒怡 0小时前 :

    节奏是挺慢的,但比我想象的要好,完全不无聊~~

  • 卫昊 6小时前 :

    91的高龄还奋战在前线,太了不起了!剧情比较平淡,小男孩选的不太好。为老爷子多加颗⭐!

  • 屠白桃 8小时前 :

    醇厚、舒缓的特质弥漫在整部电影里,如沐春风。

  • 勇运 1小时前 :

    剧本很烂,老爷子老态龙钟谈不上啥演技,就当风景片看看吧,没什么意思。

  • 扶紫雪 8小时前 :

    不得不佩服,老爷子不仅顽强地活着,而且活得很顽强。

  • 元晴雪 6小时前 :

    东木的又一部公路片 希望老爷子身体永远硬朗

  • 元嘉惠 4小时前 :

    后半部分好一些。

  • 务和怡 0小时前 :

    舒适小品,多一星给我的英雄,东木jo太郎。

  • 寅锋 9小时前 :

    虽然不是我期望看到的西部对决类型,但东木老爷子拍出来的都不错,真是看一部少一部了。

  • 俎天青 0小时前 :

    91岁的东木,依然是西部牛仔,致敬! 电影本身很平淡,温情片,but,这不重要…

  • 兰鸿羽 2小时前 :

    Cineplex. International Village. 东木爷爷的“货运司机”情节系列,可以拍到天荒地老,反正老爷子开心就好,从运货运人到运鸡鸭鱼牛羊马,随意搭配。小打小闹的公路片,单身老汉南下寻爱,顺路搭个表演尴尬的小哥北上得州与父团圆。好的,就是昏昏沉沉的下午钻进电影院看一个没什么人的午餐剧,睡着也就当小憩,醒来也没有错过什么大场面。看到7.0的评分被吓到了,5/10其中1.5还是给了美丽风光,不信DB评分了,经此一次

  • 敛幼菱 5小时前 :

    上一次看老爷子自导自演的电影还是2018年的《骡子》,时过三年伊斯特伍德依然让自己活跃在美国电影的一线,我都不敢去计算他的年龄。当我们在好莱坞提到美国硬汉和所谓的“美国精神”,恐怕十个手指头都数不过来,但东木仍然会是最独特的那位,也是最有情怀的一位,你知道他的好多故事其实都是在讲述一个故事,但你仍然会想静下心来看完他,气质这块儿把握的死死的,或许人老了就跟小孩子一样返璞归真。

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