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."
与78年的经典相比，略低于及格线……其他配角的戏份和背景少，苦命鸳鸯的情感堆积则完全没有，演技就不提了，老版的Jackie才真是神经质，新版的就是奶大。加朵成了个摆设，我都怀疑她自己到底懂不懂想演得同情点还是嚣张点，好像工具人。开头的年轻波洛则完全与剧情无关。我以为会有新意的创造，结果只有女同和黑白恋这种无关痛痒的政冶题？总之是一部莫名其抄的翻抄版
布拉纳这个从骨子里就透着白人优越主义的自以为是大傻逼！是怎么敢把手伸向大侦探菠萝系列的？下一部就该是阳光下的罪恶了吧？他觉得年轻人不可能去翻老版的片子，所以他可以任意妄为的刷新改编？为保整治正确船上居然出现黑人？有色人种不过是摆设，最终还是要走下三路的，选角上还过得去吧！汉莫没疯逼被揭发之前还算可以撑起来，加朵有点太过女神范儿了，但这都不是重点！影片一个多小时开始入活！前面所谓铺垫实际则是请您欣赏特效玩乐风光片，快看我们有钱 有技术一切都升级了！命案后的调查把聊天收集线索变成激将无证据指控！从原著人设到表演给毁个稀碎，后面两起命案赶后面两起命案赶三关似的仓促，且呈现方式抓马至极，揭发高潮戏时空洞乏味，重场戏毫无你来我往精彩过招可言，对比78版的群戏简直差到火星上了！
这个故事告诉我们，即便是盖尔加朵，恋爱脑也是会被杀掉的。
开头仿佛1917长镜头既视感，整个故事唯独这段黑白片可要可不要，和兔兔看到订婚宴会时就猜中了结局啊
经典推理片怎么还变成动作片了呢？？我真是如坐针毡，昏昏欲睡！！毁我经典MD
节奏过于拖拉，上流社会穷奢极欲纸醉金迷的风情画+BBC:走进非洲。黑白配+蕾丝边，政治觉悟满分。点22口径的手枪不能穿透两个人的身体，喷溅的血液应该是长条状的，而不是墙上的点状。感觉整条船的人都在教育波洛什么叫做“爱”:U know nothing Poirot! U TMD know nothing!
还有波洛的感情线
我只想说妈的 Armie Hammer 后台真的硬。
下水道生物，死者返生，疯狂科学家的机械改造人，吸血鬼，总的感觉没什么特别，平庸
没了胡子的波洛不是波洛！
属实没必要，不知道布拉纳哪儿来的自信拍这种人尽皆知的阿婆作品，尤其首尾来了段波洛小胡子的秘密以及如何重建自信，明显是想给自己加戏，加朵接这个角色就是为了那段埃及艳后装扮吧，汉莫现在形象越来越憨傻了，推荐科恩兄弟拍无厘头喜剧时找他演蠢蛋，前女友那么小丑女，怎么可能不是个狠角色。
味同嚼蜡。开篇的战争画蛇添足，前一小时可以用一句话概括，一部悬疑片没有任何解密的快感，哪怕我只想静静地欣赏埃及美景，也被船两边“精致”得像CG的画面劝退，更别提每个角色都好似自带舞台剧打光，Rose Leslie这么多年演技毫无进展，Gal Gadot也是迅速衰老且毫无吸引力。
艾米汉莫？
虽然没看过原著的人表示风光还行，但是推理的那部分也太敷衍了，感觉是没预算了要一下子拍完...即使老年版的柯南也不带这样的。而且后面比前面要好看些，作为纯路人，为什么要让我们知道波洛的胡子的由来？（疑问脸） / 2022.2.20 SFC 港汇 RealD Cinema 4K Atmos
整体还不错，节奏好，画面好。没看过原著的人表示很投入。群星卡司666
制作精良，场面宏大，尼罗河的风光真的是无与伦比。可惜，前半段冗长，后半段跳跃，逻辑不能自洽，可惜了。人物动机不明确，无用感情戏太多。
比《东方快车谋杀案》拍得好，还自嘲小老头喜欢开会总结的习惯。不过有些尼罗河动物奇观加的有点多，已经起不到点睛作用了。
怒打一星！出来骗钱就不要打着阿婆的旗号了吧。
其实还好啦，完美完成任务，本来翻拍就是为了看特效跟美景的
完全没看过原著和老版，所以我的四星既给小说也给电影。没啥让人眼前一亮的点，但也十分值得一看。虽然时代感在廉价的背景渲染中消散殆尽，但优秀的故事从不挑剔舞台。可惜的是推理部分过于平庸，甚至可以说毫无悬念，完全靠精彩的情节撑起故事。总体观感和有趣程度高于《东方快车》，可惜选角溃败。 肯尼思大叔不愧是话剧界的天王，拍戏手法如此古典，可以说完全不给人留一丝期待了（参见豆瓣《贝尔法斯特》条目）建议您退休之前还是回到话剧舞台吧，争取退休前整个爵士头衔。
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