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."
犹如中世纪的简化罗生门，我就懒得多说了，大概你能从每条评价都看到一样消息就说明剧本的“平稳”有多么瘪。是的剧情很现实充满对女性命运的揭示，男人以正义之言行不义之事，女人的身体灵魂被肆意践踏，到头来男人都在为自己利益显露出怯懦、贪欲、嫉妒无耻的嘴脸，骂得好bluhbluh…但是仔细想想章回体的重复真的必要吗？揭示出更深的讽刺吗？雷老爷子我看完这部就像看完异形契约的感觉，换了普通导演这是不错的完成度，您老要是这水平连续继续下去，可真是不该。万幸马达发挥应有演技，司机的身体太美好了气质太硬了好喜欢，本…反正我从没觉得他有多少演技
喜欢就是《罗生门》，讨厌就是《金刚川》，还不错，有表达，有反思，朱迪·科默这两年好火！
女权主义者的控诉，女人什么时候才能站起来？
有人说本片像罗生门，恰恰相反，本片的三名名叙述者相信自己的叙述并无夸大成分，而两位骑士的这种相信却正是最令人窒息的无意识歧视。
节奏太慢了，最后看得人很紧张。看到了“愚蠢”。人性啊人性。女人间友谊的脆弱，婆媳矛盾，多少年也没长进啊，说白了都是同性之间在争夺异性资源时的竞争。
4.吵什么女权的真的太恶心了，总说歧视女性，你拿着中世纪的十万八千里外的改编故事硬要套在整体男性身上，我也不知道自己曾做错过什么，走到哪都要被歧视，被鞭笞一番，好似我是个强奸犯，再不济也是个帮凶，即使我像男主一样上场厮杀，为女性呐喊，我也只是个为了满足自己高尚价值观的自我满足感的伪君子。
看了两章了。一个强奸案的三种表述。略显平庸，而观众真的就只想看看决斗。亮点是背景和服化道让我又有了权游的感觉。人物造型和年代背景让我觉得又回到了那个魔幻的时空。
看完后略失望，前面两个视角的呈现，相同场景下的呈现方式几乎一致，看着比较单调乏味。第三个受害者的视角可能是因为前面的反衬显得特别出色，对于视女人为附庸物的丈夫和自傲的强奸犯，她狠狠的打了他们的脸，两个男人自认为是调情或者温柔的时刻，在她的角度是显得多么的丑恶。最后的决斗打的真不错。
据说在美国票房惨败，我觉得主要还是太长了，可以稍微精炼一点。拍的还是很好的，历史上真实案件的老瓶装上了女性主义的新酒。在决斗过程中我就在想，强奸犯和老公都死了的话，女主就自由了，可以自己当家做主了。果然这就是最后的结局，棒！
首先中世纪欧洲的质感做的很棒，战场杀戮显得血腥野蛮而真实
好久没在大银幕看到各方面都这么高水准的片儿了，后半段开始渐入佳境。现在好多导演不知道怎么渲染情绪，烘托氛围，就一股脑地把配乐拉满还很得意，请跟雷老师多学学🙏。
总归有种大费周章烹小鲜的感觉，这故事有必要花这么长时间讲三遍吗？雷导这是在过中世纪瘾吗，最后的决斗戏确实精彩。
这是近期看过的最好的电影之一了…三段罗生门式的叙事将不同视角的真相展现给观众 让人看到两位男性的自私虚伪和女性的弱势凄惨…看到最后的决斗你希望他赢并不是他多正义 只是希望女主能掌握自己的命运罢了 其他一切都不值得
有明显的女性主义色彩，分别从三个人的角度讲述故事。女性被强奸一直都是没有办法证明，法律也对女性不公。
要拍不同视角就加大对比，不痛不痒地拍三遍更像省钱吧，细节抓的不好，立意也暧昧不清的，看在服化道的面子上及格分但是真的不值得1.0倍速😥
在靠暴力角力的中世纪，女人自然是男人麾下的棋子。影片雷声大雨点小，总感觉拍成“罗生门”太多余了。雷老爷子还是钟情这清冷的“黑场字幕唱诗班”画风。大本演的是个昏君吧？造型太朋克了。
PS:今天是雷德利·斯科特84岁生日🎂
那两个男人为什么决斗？公平？正义？尊严？荣誉？家人？真相？……很可惜，都不是。真相令人唏嘘，结尾令人感叹——无论古今还是中外，身为一个女人，真的好难！
好嘛~电影里决斗，豆瓣评论区里也决斗了起来。这剧里面大本演挺有意思的，他那个发型，真的好现代……
犹如中世纪的简化罗生门，我就懒得多说了，大概你能从每条评价都看到一样消息就说明剧本的“平稳”有多么瘪。是的剧情很现实充满对女性命运的揭示，男人以正义之言行不义之事，女人的身体灵魂被肆意践踏，到头来男人都在为自己利益显露出怯懦、贪欲、嫉妒无耻的嘴脸，骂得好bluhbluh…但是仔细想想章回体的重复真的必要吗？揭示出更深的讽刺吗？雷老爷子我看完这部就像看完异形契约的感觉，换了普通导演这是不错的完成度，您老要是这水平连续继续下去，可真是不该。万幸马达发挥应有演技，司机的身体太美好了气质太硬了好喜欢，本…反正我从没觉得他有多少演技
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