剧情介绍

  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."

评论:

  • 鲍乐蕊 3小时前 :

    政治和性别的对照很有意思!(这个故事本身好浪漫啊😭

  • 机平乐 8小时前 :

    气氛营造的挺好,但感情铺垫的不太够。话说男二女装也太自然了吧…我愣是没看出来是男生演的

  • 运梓敏 2小时前 :

    56/100。#Venice#情节上呈现出的话题度、画面上传达出的动人感以及演员的颜值各个方面都无可指摘,但是感觉导演真的太刻意了,由此引发了节奏上的混乱。本来没必要着重强调的人物铺垫拼了命地展开,后面主人公之间终于发掘真实自我的重点内容却又觉得不够,看完只觉得“这些深柜和异装癖的戏真的好多啊”。 @2021-09-08 01:49:05 @2021-12-23 01:33:08

  • 欣冰 9小时前 :

    一个人摆脱年老父亲,一个人逃离教会,就是觉得吧,没有绝对的异性恋?慢节奏,慢到有些无聊,我还以为他们会走到一起

  • 满敏叡 1小时前 :

    这个小故事不需要俩小时来讲吧?看得不明不白的。

  • 朴旭鹏 7小时前 :

    很吸引人的片子,不只是主角们很好看,色彩和光影的运用更是恰到好处。故事直白又勇敢,关于认同关于找寻。【轴】

  • 霍云淡 2小时前 :

    “你走进了我孤独的私人荒漠,而我给了你一片爱的绿洲”,虽然无关结局,终究是意难平

  • 淦秀妮 7小时前 :

    跨性别主角的出场设计还挺巧妙的 我真的差一点就要以为另一个主角是黑人男gay蜜了 然后船上留下了一位旁观者陪着男主 两人都被留在了夕阳下还挺美好的 顺便一夸这片子的画面真的好美

  • 玉梅 5小时前 :

    56/100。#Venice#情节上呈现出的话题度、画面上传达出的动人感以及演员的颜值各个方面都无可指摘,但是感觉导演真的太刻意了,由此引发了节奏上的混乱。本来没必要着重强调的人物铺垫拼了命地展开,后面主人公之间终于发掘真实自我的重点内容却又觉得不够,看完只觉得“这些深柜和异装癖的戏真的好多啊”。 @2021-09-08 01:49:05 @2021-12-23 01:33:08

  • 蹉凝安 9小时前 :

    后半好于前半,两个人的关系颇具张力,但全片的重量也也只限于情感变化了,许多地方点到为止,深度有限。心之全蚀加分。

  • 谷安 7小时前 :

    网聊能美好到把人掰弯?或许吧。其实人物及情感的立体化塑造都做得很不错了,至少在这一题材命题作文范畴里,能算高分了吧,但仅对于我这种保守直来说,没有了《哭泣游戏》这样的时代政治背景,纯异装同是很难接受和消化的。

  • 首小蕾 6小时前 :

    7 “我俩生活在火药桶里,却擦出了火花”。每个人心中都有一座断背山。

  • 锦琬 4小时前 :

    第一次听到turn around bright eyes还是在mom s3e13【jill slay again

  • 茜婷 6小时前 :

    你是火车里运送的危险品,是标本上偷走的骨骼,是寄出却收不到的回信,是流转回手里的高粱饴。有人比外科医生不能伤到的手重要,有人比实验室里不能缺少的糖稀有。若年少不曾听到对面小提琴鸣奏,不曾在阑尾处被他缝线,怎会活着有了墓碑,死了只余空冢,怎会眼速变慢,永生不老,终身承受这别离之苦。

  • 素令婧 5小时前 :

    一旦代入,就会戳中。若细琢磨,就全是槽点,主要是对男人的槽点。

  • 鹏震 1小时前 :

    除了摄影之外,毫无优点,烂俗的故事,烂俗的角色。

  • 蒯宾鸿 7小时前 :

    琐碎,想念,思考,出发。

  • 祁子继 2小时前 :

    头重脚轻:前半废笔冗余太多(相同内容堆了两个甚至三个无效镜头)后面的情感/对话部分反而没留够空间 当然和两人的表演痕迹也有一定关系 可惜了

  • 逸凡 8小时前 :

    LGBT真是没有题材拍了,三碗豆腐豆腐三碗。

  • 求贝晨 3小时前 :

    影片前半部份,含朔量太高了。以至于直到郭小鲁去布拉格时的转场设计才让我想起来从影片里找导演,找呀找。费劲,想着,中国电影需要王朔。文艺青年的圣地还得是北京……这是京圈的自我实现預言,多巴胺的运行机制,当人特别自信时挡在前面的人会下意识让步。但整部影片说白了、就一个大写的“刻奇”……

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