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."
虽然是1.5倍速，但最起码真的是看下去了，看完了～剧情还不错
新浪微博上某号推的，说是一部非常不错的能上院线的网大，比很多院线恐怖片强多了，忽悠得我一愣一愣的。看了，浪费我的时间！博主为了挣点钱拉低自己的鉴赏水平也不怕夜心慌。博主说影片光影不错，那是网大和院线都该有的基本功。然后博主拿演员的表演跟低成本院线惊悚片比，本身就是拉低格局。该影片的演员表演刻意，个个都像主角抢着表现自己，眼里透着自己的小聪明，根本不在角色里，看着不难受才怪。剧作也就那样，一贯的图收益回报安全的网大跟风之作。2022·6.14 6.5/6148 短评2670，%59/30/11
被朋友安利的，没想到现在网大已经这么认真了！
整体无尿点的一部片子，但是越往后越跑题，可能导演想表达的太多，而且后面庙里吐白沫和开枪控制不住方向怎么解释？最后不得不说，盛冠霖长得真是太丑了，太畸形了，不用扮就像鬼👻
非常好的网大，吊打90%的同等题材！有悬疑，有恐怖，有鬼怪，有民间怪谈，有剧本杀。虽然最后的真相依然是人性比妖魔鬼怪还要凶残丑恶，但看开头你绝对猜不到结尾。特效也不错，气氛烘托到位，几段罗生门的剧情最终完成了闭环与重合，实属难得！但个人建议应该把最后撑船的人换成男主，那就完美了。( 但是，剧中男主并不知道事实真相，所以也谈不上复仇，可惜了。) 村民太坏，道士被黑得有点过了。😂
三星半吧，完成度挺高的，拿的罗生门的本子吧，算是不恐怖的悬疑片!
网络电影制作里，剧本算是很扎实了！罗生门式的结构，阐述人性的泯灭！恐怖悬疑的故事，加上配乐特效，虽然有瑕疵，但整体质量勉强及格！人恶人怕天不怕，人善人欺天不欺，善恶到头终有报！结尾处的全部角色，梦境还是现实？自由观众评判！不过个人觉得最后定格小女孩的脸变为狐狸，会不会更好？
整片充斥着绝望感，丝丝有抓住主角的破碎，流星还不够狠。女性视角下还是觉得桃李的角色很危险…但同时他的脆弱感也是让人怜惜的…唉
剧本还是挺不错的，部分演员演技有点拉了，细节有些粗，比如谢的未婚妻被掐死，脖子没有指痕。人善被人欺，天不欺。愿天下好人长命百岁，坏蛋原地爆炸💥
从来没看过这么好看的作品！太强了吧！尽管看完之后后劲十足，有点难过但是更热爱生活啦
挺好看的！甚至狐狸洞那里一个大脑袋都有点吓人了！故事完整，很聪明的写法，看到最后心里很难受，一个警世喻言了。有被惊喜到。
不是，这种国产优质罗生门片评分6.5？《人生大事》这种狗屁玩意目前都能维持在7.3分，所以豆瓣大神要闹哪样？本来就这个结局我只能给到本片4星，可看到这评分我反手一波五星不解释了..片子很好，深刻剖析了人性的黑暗面，再次讲述了一个道理，人远比鬼要可怕得多。友情提示，片尾曲唱完后还有个小彩蛋，极其精彩，不要错过。最后的最后，谢锦你敢说你不是薛之谦？
没有流量的网大剧，可以看出编剧的用心，演员也都充满血肉，挺不错的
情绪太满，其他地方又太弱，时间很拖，有几个镜头还可以。标准日式扭曲情感片。
罗生门式的故事，影片将民俗惊悚感和恐怖片气氛都营造得挺好的，人性丑陋的暴露也让人挺触动，特效很不错，狐狸头的场景非常具有想象力。值得一看
国产恐怖片不管在院线还是网络应为都不能有妖魔鬼怪存在所以只能想着法子用其他故事手段来沾点边。本片故事虽然于标题关系不大但情节环环相扣，三个故事竟然巧妙圆在了一起，颇有点罗生门的感觉，这质量放在网络大电影里已经算是非常高的水准了。
咋说呢，我看的电影是一个东西，影评是另一个东西，我的理解和影评没有任何关系
可以的，人性描写的很真实，穷凶极恶大概就是这个意思
竟然还可以（全靠同行衬托），跟其他的大烂片比起来，这片确实可看。
每个镜头的出现都有理由，它们是两个主角每天摆脱不了的梦魇，它们就是因为挥之不去，才会过了十年了还什么都没变——那么地善良、那么地无所谓、那么的痛苦。
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