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."
小时候超爱《铁道游击队》的故事。本片有一个这么好的主题，拍成这样真是有些遗憾。单场戏缺少吸引力，人物扁平过于模式化，大概只有范伟的角色是有些鲜活的，但似乎，也是来自于其个人魅力。总之，这样一个故事，是可以更好，也值得更好的。现在有些可惜了。
在敌占区与肆虐横行的敌人斗智斗勇、顽强斗争的战斗事迹，身段柔软，组织坚韧，渠道畅通，装备有方；造景讲究，画面带感。
真的好！难！看！叙事杂乱无章，毫无逻辑，废笔太多，最后匆匆高潮，草草收场。人物除了老王没一个立住的，全是工具人，多一个少一个根本没影响，老洪说是从隔壁威虎山片场过来客串的我也信。最不能理解的是，现在日本鬼子四个字是不让说了吗？里面全说的是“日本子”。还是说本来当时当地人家就这么叫？
我们先辈的英雄电影给拍成这样，处处都假的不行。剧情有似没有，莫名其妙迷迷糊糊，大雪纷飞一头雾水。只有范伟老师一个人在认认真真塑造着角色。包括张涵予在内所有人物都被蒙在皑皑白雪后面看不清楚。要不是时间太晚，我都想把老电影《铁道游击队》再看一遍。
揉合了《悬崖之上》和《长津湖》的影子，当然就两边都比不上。
摆一桌见阎王的酒，话一席亡山河的仇。暴雪里有在血肉里翻绞的刺刀，铁轨上便有攀爬到贼心上的麻绳。车厢内有灭亡家国的军火，车窗上便有向死而生的徽标。喝点酒才好在敌营里卧薪，流点血才敢在匪巢内爆破。这苹果切了最大块给你，这刀却要在最合适的时间给你，这一世无缘做血亲，还好再来世与你相认。
广影 氛围质感不错，老王加分，可惜剧情没跟上。
护士笔墨太少，完全是打酱油的角色，番位诈骗。谭凯可惜了，他的角色明显比魏晨后面那个角色有意思，但没办法，没流量和背景嘛，同样类比华谊和博纳最近两部主旋律影片的市场反响对比，2021年了，你还拍抗日？它漂亮国大爹现在都得跪舔兔子！
感觉没啥意思，趣味不大，70年代色情片拍得倒是蛮好。
铁道间谍们反侵略的生死火拼。这部影片的票房失利，我猜也许因为《铁道游击队》这个红色经典IP太深入人心，造成了观众的刻板印象，所以可能让很多人对这部影片没有兴趣；或者是因为在这个题材方面，观众已经被成龙的《铁道飞虎》伤害了一次，所以期望太高失望太大。但不管是什么原因，这部影片的节奏、以及动作戏都表现不是很好，只有几场文戏还算有些亮点，我想导演更适合拍纪录片。整部片节奏太拖沓、头重脚轻，前面铺垫那么长的人物，最后决战的动作戏就是像美国西部牛仔那种一枪决斗就完事了，没有酣畅淋漓的对决场面，最重要的是让观众的情绪无处安放，像泄气的气球。这也许是合格的故事片，但不是合格的商业片，最后一查发现导演似乎还是个新导演，好像没有拍过几部作品。
就是很纯粹的不好看，导演编剧都有问题。节奏拖沓，漏洞不少，揉了不少谍照元素进去也只流于表面，反倒是最重要的劫火车这件事既不紧张刺激又缺乏战术配合拍得非常糟糕。张涵予完全沦为工具人，白瞎了范伟老师的好演技。
基本等价于《革命者》2.0，摄影、特效、音效、美术都更好，剧本则更烂。光注重视听塑造了，剧本一盘散沙，叙事节奏非常拖沓。范伟演的在他的水准内，但人设和《长津湖》的胡军太类似。全片一到关键时刻就上演死亡催泪大法，导演的招数少的可怜。
范伟的演技真的是秒杀其他所有人 包括张涵予在范伟的映衬下都显得寡淡无味
给英雄和当年的精神打三星，给老戏骨加一颗星，情节是硬伤，没法给五星了。
很平庸的一部恐怖片，加了很多性元素，依然很平庸
2个扣分点。1是因为剧情雪景夜景很多，不知是打光还是滤镜问题，看着我眼睛疼，人林海雪原也没这样。2小护士去报信时已经被监视了，怎么就突然安全跑出来，还直接参与入党宣誓仪式现场，从涵予叔受伤时和她的对话可知，之前不是组织的人，加入得是不是太快了？缺乏铺垫。还有诸如范伟老师和小煤工二三事之类的情节，真的，从范老师对他莫名要喊爹的执拗开始，就猜到了接下来会发生什么，结局一点也不意外。怪不得大家觉得节奏不行，对于可预知的剧情走向，大家想要的是赶紧看完，而不是被过多的纯审美式装逼式镜头消耗了耐心。
开头越是装腔作势的拿捏，后面越是露怯。整部电影的信息量太有限，拍得又平，哪怕有范伟和张涵予，还有美到惊心的周也，也撑不起来。
铁道间谍们反侵略的生死火拼。这部影片的票房失利，我猜也许因为《铁道游击队》这个红色经典IP太深入人心，造成了观众的刻板印象，所以可能让很多人对这部影片没有兴趣；或者是因为在这个题材方面，观众已经被成龙的《铁道飞虎》伤害了一次，所以期望太高失望太大。但不管是什么原因，这部影片的节奏、以及动作戏都表现不是很好，只有几场文戏还算有些亮点，我想导演更适合拍纪录片。整部片节奏太拖沓、头重脚轻，前面铺垫那么长的人物，最后决战的动作戏就是像美国西部牛仔那种一枪决斗就完事了，没有酣畅淋漓的对决场面，最重要的是让观众的情绪无处安放，像泄气的气球。这也许是合格的故事片，但不是合格的商业片，最后一查发现导演似乎还是个新导演，好像没有拍过几部作品。
谁看了能不说一句：范伟牛啊！两星电影硬是被范伟的表演拉成了三星。
不一样的抗日电影。拍摄手法很独特。致敬英雄们。
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