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."
年底的惊喜，废话不多，就是燃，就是热血，就是好看！希望大家都去看！
人物太丑了，剧情也一般。。。营销太过了，台词好尬，别动不动就炒作成国漫教科书了好吗？以前的国漫哪部不比这好看？
今年的年度最佳影片，从第二幕离开小镇开始的后半段甚至可以是“国漫崛起”以来的最佳。留守少年的成长，在梦想和现实之间挣扎，最终又回归现实，这才是真正的成长，世界上最大的奇迹就是自己的不放弃。
挺不错的，前半段节奏略奇怪，男主角色塑造感觉没起来，但其他的都挺好的，尤其是舞狮的场景做得还是蛮出彩的
3颗半 有出彩的段落 但节奏还是很垮 台词还是很尬
但他曾在波涛中畅游的姿态身影，
若非没点天赋，少年还能雄师？成功不是埋头苦练就能成事。这也就是《当幸福来敲门》是历久弥新的励志片，而这种充其量就是屌丝意淫的爽片。
感觉完全就是九连真人那首莫欺少年穷的电影版，表现出乡村少年的困顿现实和雄心壮志。
是谁在电影院里数度落泪我不说……其实很多个煽情和拔高主题的段落和台词都挺尴尬的，真正感动到我的从来都是那些不被刻意突显的细节，比如师母看似不经意地推过来三杯水而又立刻走开…
前半段太春晚了，在电影院简直坐立难安。后半段突然情节立体了，故事真实了，人物丰富了……鼓点敲到心里去了。
节奏从开头就保持情绪渲染的力度，每一段小幽默调节虽有部分遗憾，但整体保持一致性与流畅性，不在中后段过于拔高煽情力度，初赛和决赛小反转成功反套路，力道收放到较短波动内。
🎬《雄狮少年》
刚出影院就看到了豆瓣年度华语片榜单，雄狮少年名列第一只能说院线片已经凋零了
当年艳羡美日动漫，何日我们能做出此等 无论是技术 还是情节 如此之好的作品，没想到从少年到中年的我 看到了，几十年也才让我意识到 超越永远不是 发生在前浪冲涮过的沙滩！后浪总是有更好的方式！ 扩展开来，中国重新屹立中峰，定！
3⃣️浓浓的广东味儿我太爱了呜呜呜，每一首配乐也都非常绝，不是那种工业流水线做出来的曲子。
动画做得真不错，无论是水墨狮子，还是光影下似真似幻的毛茸茸。废柴逆袭的故事很套路，但拥挤的打工宿舍的天台上，那些画在地上的桩印，写在墙上的练习记录，都很动人，用一句鸡汤歌词来形容，平凡生活的英雄梦想。一次比赛，虽然看起来热血，但并没有一步登天的童话，生活还得继续，但热爱令人勇敢和坚强。结尾和彩蛋，可以加一星。喜欢。
超好看啊！很久没有被励志片打动了，这次的题材很现实，没有虚头巴脑的设定，病猫男孩的肌肉是眼看着一点一点长起来，音乐也选配的很贴切很棒👍这几年看的国产动画里的最高分！第一次不觉得国配很烂，配音还是配的很棒的👍有被感动到！
最后结尾落点太棒了，当他打算跳擎天柱，大家开始一起打鼓，我还在想，不行啊不能跳上去啊。很好，超现实镜头出现，阿娟落入水中，最后狮头落在最高点，太棒了。人生可以尝试翻越最高的那一座山，但是一山比一山高，总有一座山是上不去的，上山，下山，我们都还需要学习。女阿娟角色的设定也蛮好的，女性身份让她没那么自由的舞狮，而少年也顶着阿娟这个名字，跳上高点，这个时候，性别不重要，心中有雄狮才是最重要的。
风格化方面 包括人设 塑造音乐特效 桥段设置等 各种照搬周星星的无厘头风. 而从故事设定 美术场景 光效和内容地方化等方面 又很见用心 加之也是动画题材中少有的涉足现实题材 尤为难得. 希望未来的动画业界 能再接再厉 不止于挖掘神话 复刻西方 在扎根生活之上 创造更多有生命力的作品.
迄今国慢巅峰。虽然故事还有那么点套路，但民俗不俗套，现实不滥情，情节热血，美工扎实，基本跳脱了动画感，现实电影感很强，真的可以说为国慢电影自豪了。五星
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