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."
大场面的调度也过于形式。
谢苗配音（不知道是否是他原声）略微出戏，女主演技堪称灾难
怎么样都没想到一部潮汕影片还有点催泪？配乐很绝，绝对是这部片子的取胜点。
超级有共鸣的片子，身边人身边事，朴素真实的情感。全片几乎没有高潮，但是完全无尿点。看得我时而嘴角上扬，时而泪眼朦胧。----忘了说，我不是潮汕人
优点和缺点都特别明显的电影，但这个电影的质量相比网大有点屈才了，可以走院线的。故事很简单，而且有点模仿座头市，谢苗的演技略微弱了点，体现在台词上功力上。武打设计真不错，谢苗的身手挺好，然后导演最后雪战那块儿确实有想法，也表现的相当不错。那个女的设计很失败，感觉就去送了个死，而且死的还挺莫名的。不过这个电影确实可以看看
虽然整体上剧情没有很大的起伏，甚至可以猜得出走向，但是贵在真实，场景和对话都非常日常和亲切，电影中的妈妈是全局的焦点，也是矛盾的中心，演得非常自然本色，撑起整部片，拜神时、发火时、被拍vlog、第一次坐飞机有点忐忑不适时的妈妈，都可以看到潮汕妈妈的缩影，甚至自己妈妈的影子，好多的妈妈忙碌了大半辈子，都没坐过飞机，都没出省旅游，都省吃俭用攒钱给孩子成家立业，但仍对子女怀有愧疚，这是电影里最感动我的点了
6.5分，放在今年来所看的华语网络大电影里算是质量最好的一部了（今天还看了奈飞出品的网络电影《终极拦截》，觉得也是一部在及格线左右的普通类型片，缺乏惊喜）。影片没有像之前的那部《无名狂》般一言不合就装逼要搞所谓的“新派武侠”，但近乎黑白的镜头语言不断的营造出一种乱世之下的肃穆气氛，动作童星谢苗（《新少林五祖》、《赤子威龙》等）也塑造出一个不苟言笑的剑客形象，在某种程度上也致敬了日本剑戟片《座头市》
三加一 匠气也掩盖不了的真诚 乡镇生活细节动人 / 不过规避了重男轻女这一潮汕文化非常大的痛点 / 想把镜头伸向我妈妈
初看潮语电影，稍稍尬住几分钟后渐入佳境。没有硬尬的剧情，表演可圈可点，很街头巷尾，看不出“演”的痕迹。演“妈妈”的素人演员演得真好，完全能hold住。
很高兴看到落后观念逐渐改变
因方言与略显生涩的表演包裹，令如此平庸俗套的题材，还不至于太难看。
杀一个人要偿命，杀一万个人就不用了。
鼓励这部电影远超预期。故事可爱又有点辛酸但是更可爱。演员们的质朴表演完全把我拉入潮汕生活。之前潮汕朋友常常在我耳边提及他们当地严苛的传统风俗，对于缔结婚姻的百般讲究、家庭里的男女角色、兄弟姐妹的地位责任关系等等，非常overwhelming。好在电影用轻量的喜剧来表现外省女友与潮汕当地社会意识的冲突，把潮汕人的家庭信仰和可爱面都表现出来了，看到了文化隔阂些许融化的可能性，人的柔软心底是共通的，「理解」是人与人之间得以平顺的最终答案。潮汕的节俗文化也有非常有趣丰富的呈现，给心中想去潮汕旅行的那把小火，添燃了薪柴。看过的人还是不够多，五颗星弥补性支持！
不得不夸一夸，乡土气息让人很舒服，全程没有表演的做作，浑然天成。最近真的是，太想了解关于南方的一切！
魏君子总算把武侠玩明白了，可惜世间却再无座头市
鼓励这部电影远超预期。故事可爱又有点辛酸但是更可爱。演员们的质朴表演完全把我拉入潮汕生活。之前潮汕朋友常常在我耳边提及他们当地严苛的传统风俗，对于缔结婚姻的百般讲究、家庭里的男女角色、兄弟姐妹的地位责任关系等等，非常overwhelming。好在电影用轻量的喜剧来表现外省女友与潮汕当地社会意识的冲突，把潮汕人的家庭信仰和可爱面都表现出来了，看到了文化隔阂些许融化的可能性，人的柔软心底是共通的，「理解」是人与人之间得以平顺的最终答案。潮汕的节俗文化也有非常有趣丰富的呈现，给心中想去潮汕旅行的那把小火，添燃了薪柴。看过的人还是不够多，五颗星弥补性支持！
如果你自认为有着一定电影鉴赏水平的话，听我的别看
很久没看到这样的武侠片了。十步杀一人，千里不留行，事了拂衣去，深藏身与名。侠客，好久不见。
盲眼“捉刀人”的设定真的很戳我，正所谓“侠之大者，为国为民”，成瞎子眼盲心不盲，怀揣一腔孤勇，凭借一身绝技，守着心中侠道，践行人世正义。一瞬间，竟让我感觉那个武侠百花齐放的时代好像又回来了。世间多心盲之人，笑侠者蚍蜉撼大树，但幸好还有成瞎子这样的侠者存在，他们在，公道就在。敬江湖，敬侠者。
不想说打击的话，也不想昧着良心硬捧。最大感触是，好想念徐浩峰啊，不知道他的作品还能不能被看到，你是一个门派的全部未来，一个人，没有同类——想念徐浩峰的作品。
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