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."
如今是一个荷尔蒙稀缺的时代，多一点荷尔蒙的电影挺好
抗战神剧的新标杆了，我相信这个天花板几乎不可能被突破了，特别是服化道和特效。
别的都很好，只是英国人，电影可不可以不要也这么蓝。和兰心大剧院有一点异曲同工之处，兰心的原著小说马后炮得很离谱，本片很克制。兰心的角色，尤其是女性角色，比较生动，本片的女性角色好多工具人。就是说能不能合拍一个，求求了。
21.1.22 Netflix 剧情挺一般的 就看这豪华的卡司了
本片可谓是两兄弟为了拯救人民从陌生到一起的冰与火之歌。只有印度的歌舞才能给人独特的感染力，它能通过歌舞的形式继续推进剧情。而且歌舞很美很动人不是吗。
我爱印度电影
二战的电影非常多，但签订苏台德协议场景重现的，第一次看到。这电影不错。
前十分钟同族自相残杀的暴力画面看得我差点退出，挺过去之后，才是我想看的印度电影——最喜欢的就是印度片这种“真实题材乱入神话感的感觉”，给你“人即神”即视感，还总有幽默感渗透其中。唱着歌，跳着舞，耍着帅就把事儿给办了，放狮子老虎那场大戏太有趣了。以及不得不说，印度舞的下盘真是太厉害了，稳得像练家子，而且这个国家本就有灵性传统，什么打着坐飞起来，光脚从雪山出来，而自从了解到印度的一种武术，那种克里亚瑜伽精神、力量感与身体几何，就更知道了，所以放别的地方不成立的拍法只有放在印度毫无违和，这就叫风格。
英国人竟然胆敢找印度人斗舞这一无知举动就奠定了本片的超现实基调。阿兰和毕姆两人竟然还有史诗角色歌，秒回《摩诃婆罗多》，片尾舞蹈可以照搬上春晚。印度人想象力一直可以的。
我有些理解j叔说的话
挺好看，给了绥靖政策一个新的解读。不过希特勒一步一步通过选举成为民族社会主义德国工人党党魁，再通过选举成为国家元首，说明那段时间德国民族主义之高涨。细思极恐。
丘吉尔有两句话评价慕尼黑协定：
印度版“手撕鬼子”。对于这个评价，一开始我是持怀疑态度的，看到后面真的就是战神下凡。两个超级战士因为偶然的机会成为朋友。一个要救妹妹，一个要达成壮志，俩人因为目的不一样，从相爱走到相杀。但毕竟爱得太深，之前还用皮鞭抽对方，之后就愿意用自己的生命去救对方。我觉得这段真的很像《大话西游》里的青霞和紫霞。最后俩人消除了隔阂，一起联手把英国人灭了。两个超级战士大战英国总督，说是印度版的“美国队长”也不过，反正就是无脑爽片。两个男人的情谊描写加上力量十足的舞蹈，可以无脑一看。
直到身边人因为反犹被折磨后，主角才从狂热的纳粹支持者完全转变为反希特勒团体的一员。但在当时的德国，更多人连他这样都做不到，他们以为自己能在历史的浪潮中安然无事。不过连其他政客们都不愿去面对的事情，普通人又能做什么呢？
打斗戏已经很神，不过比起之前印象中离谱的动作戏已经算是收敛一些了，虽然还是有点扯淡，但是却绝对的爽快。最吸引人的还是对于友情和家国仇恨的刻画，这让影片有着独特的精神内核，这就是正义的爽。
最后这算是洗白张伯伦？以牺牲个人的私德揭露希特勒假面具？
三哥开挂爽片，视效精美，动作火爆，可能是动不动就跳舞的原因，身材都练的相当不错，内娱得好好学学~7.5
RRR有史诗级的氛围，细腻的故事，和好莱坞水平的动作特效，这187分钟的印度“超级英雄电影”比神还要神。
1938年英德法意四国在慕尼黑把捷克的苏台德卖了的故事！英国人这个时候拍这么一部第二次世界大战边缘的关于苏台德地区的最后谍战外交战的电影，是对2022年初爆发的俄乌战争和后续发展的预言吗？表面上看，俄罗斯就是当年德国，但实质上美国为首的北约不断东扩，才是当年的德国，普京反而是当年的张伯伦和丘吉尔的合体。历史就是这么残酷，虽然刚经历过残酷的一战的欧洲大国，都不想再打一场欧洲大战，但还是被历史的车轮一点点卷了进去！老谋深算的英国首相张伯伦尽一切努力不想欧洲再次大战，这在当时背景下其实是完全正确的！并且明知希特勒不可信，还是主动和希特勒签了英德永不再战条约，就是让其毁约而失信天下！同时也拖延了和德国开战的时间，抓紧备战。
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