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."
最大的包袱整到最后其实是个最大的bug啊。。没看过原作马伯庸的作品应该不至于如此吧。。为数不多的几段古董特效倒是挺耐看，剧情前面还好点，进了郑家村就跟魔怔了似的撵着你往前赶的赶脚
高清版可以看见铜钱上的铜锈。娱乐片，无他。
不管原著多么严谨精彩，我看的是电影！电影的剧本明显打磨不够，漏洞百出，而且为了双雄争胜的套路，生硬的制造可行性。最后的洗白也够弱智，你把真佛头弄在假佛头里送给日本人难道就不是送了？既然假佛头足可乱真，为何不把真的藏起来再把假的送出去，别说怕老朝奉找到，一个造假组织你当是神啊；别说书里怎么完美圆回来的，TMD我看部电影难道还得买本书来补充剧情？也就是演员还不错，能让人无脑的看下去。国内市场这么好了，希望电影人们能够好好爱护珍惜，拍摄前先沉下心打磨好剧本，别只顾着圈钱，伤了根基。
辛芷蕾这九十年代造型也太好看了！
周末被妈妈拖去看的！当时手边的一部电影刚要看完，所以上半段没怎么进入状态......我开始期待是猜中了佛像肯定是假的哈哈哈！（然而是又不是w）线索推进挺快的，这点很好，要吐槽的是那个啥特效叽里咕噜的一点都不炫酷好么(￣∇￣)就一股无聊的大人画风（不过年代和服装也的确是）哦对！！我印象比较深的地方是辛芷蕾真的好适合这种花绿绿的胖棉袄，她一脸飒气又妩媚拿着那串钥匙，真的会让人感觉是坐拥好几套宅子和一大堆金元宝把老公踩在脚底下玩弄的女人23333！！特别戳我泪点的反而是回忆，许和平一个人在街上买包子，周遭热热闹闹的，只有他坚守着他的孤独、想念和秘密，就好心酸。这条主线背后的故事我会记很久。
没看过原著，2个最大的问题，1许一诚把真佛头放在假佛头里面送日本人，这和送真佛头给日本人有什么区别，许一诚把命都丢了，怎么认定木户的后代会还佛头？2许和平自己都查明白荒庙里面是陷阱，又何必设计一层一层谜题引导儿子去查一个假的真相呢？万一儿子死在里面了呢？这一家人戏真多。
最讨厌醉汉了。没去电影院看。古玩圈水很深呀，一般人玩不起。直接上手触碰文物，连手套都不戴呀。中国人是很在意家庭背景的，清白很重要。雷佳音很适合演这种角色。葛优油嘴滑舌，当面一套背里一套，见人说人话，见鬼说鬼话。烤整猪，冒热气，好香呀。
没看过原著跟剧版，所以也不了解里面复杂的人物关系，单从电影来说，完整度跟节奏都还不错，双雄的设定，两人性格各异，容易营造冲突，开场的两场鉴宝，兼具科普性跟娱乐性，也能展现人物的性格，建立认同感，快捷有效；后面节奏加快，悬念一环接着一环，有一种解谜过关的游戏感，特效也加强了这种观感，但是也因此而丧失了前面的那种专业感，主题也从鉴宝变成了寻宝，而且结尾也有点仓促。总体上非常规整，类型化程度也很高的爽片。7.3
有点烂啊，我比较喜欢原著，所以扫一眼这个电影。可以说改编很失败，李现演技够差！雷佳音老样子。反正就这么个俗套片子，快进比较好。限于片长和改编能力，原著的精髓也没留下什么。
中国人太聪明了。90年代东北中原怀旧风，挺喜欢的。郑国渠演得好啊，死得太快。大部份时间都在解密，悬疑够了。钱都砸了，对进入最后场景的通道（应该算是墓道吧）却完全放弃，直上直下真的有点好笑。看剧透的时候有点反感国籍设定，但这个“壳”最后倒是跟着假佛头一起裂开了，里面还是中国人自己的心眼子。倒是对马亲王有了赞赏👍不错不错
古董界的汉奸家族昭雪，三代人坚守失落的国宝。虽然看得出压缩了很大的信息量，但是基本上在电影的有限时长里，导演的完成度还是比较高的。影片开头就通过雷佳音的一个小“局中局”的把戏为全片定调，后面的剧情一步步推进，让人始终觉得破解的答案，是否还是局的一部分，不知身在局中还是局外。利用各种古董器物和背景历史文化设计的谜题，也是引人入胜的好桥段。
怎么办，剧情还行。让我想起了夺宝奇兵里面的棺材飞出的幽灵，不过，没什么关系。
根本不知道葛优跟男主角的爸爸是什么样的感情，值得他付出这么多。煽情莫名其妙，我们观众的感情还没有深入到那一步，就已经不幸被砸死，只砸坏人不砸好人。
李现帅的，电影改编的情节更简单，小说更好看，期待系列化。
许愿、药不然比武那一段的特效做得不错，是小说无法比拟的，其他都一般。#20220131
还挺流畅的 加上喜欢古董这个题材 但还是小说写的更好一些
佛头最后剥落的时候像极了费列罗
李现辛芷蕾扑克脸演技，整了一堆大哥大姐过来客串。主线太弱了，不如夏雨版电视剧。话说回来，就是一个手机包膜的事，说这么费劲儿？
1、故事、人物都很拉垮，局中局也比较容易识破，看到“阴在阳之内”就已经猜到了结局；2、硬凹一些很尬的cp笑点，李现造型合格但声音太出戏，幸好还有葛优拉回一点好感度。
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