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."
峰爆是难得的中国灾难片，节奏紧凑，各种爽片元素，飙车，爆破，攀岩，速降，人定胜天都来一遍，好看，感动
恐高症看着脚软同时有点震撼，感情戏有点感动又有点尴尬。居老师一如既往的帅气，焦艳俊永远是我心里的小秋。
角色反复横跳让我感觉有些情节就是硬写出来煽情的
整体完成度不错的！虽然细节上有待商榷，比如那段一个人驾车狂奔的戏，怎么看怎么像速度与激情！比如说那段父子雨中攀岩的部分，确定不会打滑吗？比如说。。。某些片段的衔接上有些牵强，人物也稍显得脸谱化了点。。。
雨中徒手攀岩是认真的吗？既然是宣传铁道兵的半纪实的作品，那就扎扎实实的好好拍啊。
向可敬可爱的铁道兵致敬！
3.5；黑色幽默的成分，赋予本片一种灵动的气质，把常见的讽刺业内题材拍得颇有可看性，讽谑味挺足。戏中戏互为镜像，教科书级的演技实力演绎何谓影帝影后。
特效太让人出戏了，还是一样的套路和情节，基本可以猜到故事发展
不说剧情，灾难片的效果还挺震撼的，追赶好莱坞的节奏。铁建定制宣传片，剧情不好评论，攀岩🧗♀️那段太夸张了，比《徒手攀岩》都猛了。片尾字幕值得看完，铁道兵是和平年代死亡最多的兵种。另外，黄志忠陈数俩人的角色有点固化了，固执强硬理想主义黄就没走出《人间正道是沧桑》的杨立仁，陈数就是理性冷艳女科学家没走出《暗算》黄依依…
故事情节还行，情节碰撞发展都还经得起推敲，就是猪脚光环开的太离谱了，小伙子体能好，老头子体能也好就是真的离谱了。600公斤的高爆炸药搬来搬去的最后接个电话就像打了鸡血一样，飞身一跃还能吊个单杆，真的服气。ps:中国徒手攀岩第一人是洪翼舟了吧？
陪基友看的点映，前半段不错，后半段形而上学地瞎扯，全片配乐非常糟糕，结尾铁道兵致敬部分相当不错，决定十一出行改坐火车
演员尽力了，剧本不能深究，没太感觉到灾难的恐惧感，刻意煽情比较尴尬，女友看到结尾说片子有些科幻
雨中徒手攀岩，也是厉害。
3.5；黑色幽默的成分，赋予本片一种灵动的气质，把常见的讽刺业内题材拍得颇有可看性，讽谑味挺足。戏中戏互为镜像，教科书级的演技实力演绎何谓影帝影后。
开头峰爆场面把气氛烘托得还可以，但是每一个情节基本都能猜到，结尾男主父亲蛮催泪的，可是中途我还是离场了半个多小时。
我觉得后面有几处剧情设置还不够合理。
黄志忠演技可以，但是特效多少有些假，尤其是暴雨徒手爬山，这么多专业人员，非得让退伍老兵上，bug还是很多的
果然、西安成都这样中原地带真的相对会很安全。
发展不易，致敬每一位劳动者。
流畅是我最大的感受，看国内很多所谓的大片的时候，经常感叹为什么还不如小电影流畅，尤其中国医生，真的太不流畅了，看着难受（但是很感人）。峰爆真的很流畅了，情节也紧凑。特效有点差，会有一些人物超能力的bug，但是总体来说在国内同类型电影里真的很棒了。很感人，很专业，演员也都很好，乔欣这种我觉得演技一般的，都演的特别特别棒。黄志忠和焦俊艳绝对是最棒的，其次是陈数的朱一龙。连我妈这种不爱看紧张的电影的人都说好看。老公本来要写东西，都被吸引的一直在看，还怪我为什么要看这个电影害他没写多少东西。最后的最后，作为喜欢龙龙的人还是要补充一句，龙龙演技不错，但是比起黄志忠甚至焦俊艳来说，他真的差了点换剧就换脸的感觉，感觉他演什么都像在演他自己，虽然对人物情绪表达很到位，希望他越来越好吧。
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