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."
真的很好哭。
其实天下母亲都是如此。
我要强烈批评影片最后刻画母亲买票又退票在大雪天中一个人走回去的镜头，我不接受，母爱不是因为牺牲才伟大，爱与关怀本身就是伟大。
贾玲还是适合做小品，她的表演方式、她的叙事能力都更适合能和观众互动的、短小精炼的舞台而不是要被观众一帧一帧检视的电影。更何况她非科班出身，参与电影项目也不多，要执导筒讲故事就更是自曝其短。
震惊于这样一部艺术的作品，却毫不枯燥。3个小时把人按在座椅上，看着新又新的剧团几十年流过眼前，微小与宏大呈现出异常的真实。
Locarno电影节看的，一个沉重的故事，普通人被裹挟在时代的巨流，无路可退
7分。豆瓣8.2分过分了，就电影论电影的话，贾玲这部作品最大的问题在于它不太像电影（但也确实比小品形态提升了不少）。如果无视这一点，主要凭是否感动或者哭了多少眼泪来评价它的优劣，那就好比让情色片与AV同台竞技，主要凭观众生理反应的指标来评价优劣。
不管是亲情题材、穿越题材还是喜剧题材类电影中，这一部都算中规中矩，这个8.2实在是夸张，我很喜欢贾玲，但这和电影本身好不好没有关系，这届豆瓣已经不是我当初看电影前必来做功课的那个豆瓣了
过誉了真的。。。大概就是贾玲小品集锦+王牌对王牌煽情套路。
缺点：1、诉求和故事主线不统一不连贯，主角不够聚焦，故事成了拼盘一会儿是张小斐的戏一会又成了沈腾的戏(在这点上同类型的影片《夏洛特烦恼》就要比这部强，主角欲望强烈，诉求明确，主题突出，当然夏也有很多问题)；2、情绪缺乏克制，没有留白，这是无法成为经典影片的最大障碍。优点：1、女性导演女性视角，难能可贵(当然并没有突破男性视角)；2、结尾处理很好，催泪全在这段，准确说是104分钟到110分钟；3、笑点设置比原版小品好，尤其沈腾在舞台上演出那段设置特别巧妙，打破了荧幕，直接和影院观众互动那种。影响：好的影响是未来大概会出现一批女艺人来做导演拍自身故事，这部片子8.3的评分说明我们影视欣赏水平稳步降低，良好的市场表现会引发大量模仿，咱国影视质量又将大幅下降。
A new old play 非常不错，拍摄手法和画面都很棒，全剧四川话也让我感觉十分亲切。每一个转折点都是一首判词来揭晓，新又新。很久没看华语片了，很惊喜。唯一觉得不足的是，太长了。
浅景深
这不是一部优秀的”电影“，但却是一部足够真诚的”电影“。虽然本质上只是小品《你好，李焕英》的扩写，但是第二次重构是情感的升华，尤其是电影最后的反转所带来的情感更加击中人心。
女性主义的电影，描绘的每一个女性角色都很可爱，我喜欢王琴阿姨，看到电影最后她是靠自己的努力工作抓住机遇才得到后面富裕的生活，就很庆幸贾玲没有让这个角色流于俗套。整部电影最巧妙的地方就是在于最后一部分——双穿越。确实催人泪下。但是父母真的对孩子没有要求吗？我想并非天下父母都是如此。但是真挚的感情可以打动人。
在这样的年代仍饱含着对过往两朝历史洪流中人民日常生活细节的追溯，且以极为稀缺独特的艺术工作坊式的方法完成。历史大舞台下的他方唱罢尔登场，民间传说中的阴阳神鬼孟婆，以及随波逐流于期间的三教九流各色人等，堪称精妙的历史群像画卷
贾玲作为一位新人导演，这次成绩单交得真的棒！
平心而论，是一部不够专业，不够电影质感的电影，也有夸张到出戏的桥段，是我见过的最不艺术的蒙太奇，却因为过分细腻的片段而被深深打动，影片对母爱的表达可以说柔情到极致了，融化在贾玲对母亲无处表达的爱意和思念里，“我宝”让我在电影院泣不成声，我这辈子最大的幸运就是成为我妈妈的女儿。
真的是很妙，用舞台的形式却能表现这么丰富的故事，还以牛头马面带着走黄泉路来展开，导演还是很有想法的。
这仍然是国内主流价值观，我仍然与它们格格不入。
女导演太棒了，喜剧并不是一定要黄段子！！前面合家欢喜剧尬点很少，后面猝不及防的高潮呜呜呜呜呜呜，世上只有妈妈好。
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