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."
3.失业的法比安依旧内心善良招呼陌生流浪汉喝酒吃饭，依旧和女友感情深厚，令人心中温暖
最后还是分两次看完了，结尾在意料之外其实也在意料之中。三十年代的柏林，离开的爱人，最后的烈火。“你只有弄脏自己才能摆脱污泥，而我们要出去，我写的是我们，你明白我的意思吗？” / 今天走在路上的时候 还是会一直想起来 那段话一直萦绕不散 如果我也可以拍出一部电影 那应该就是 法比安
前1/3的部分镜头画面表现很惊艳。
这个结局也是真的没猜到。时代洪流背景下小人物的结局。
在恐怖而荒谬的世界里，工作、爱情和朋友都离他远去。正要试图找回所爱，命运和他自己那颗不算坏的心却把他推向了死亡..印象最深的一个镜头是“他没有办法来帮自己 他在太阳下把舌头伸了出来” 。最后他的溺亡并不使我特别难过，可这伸舌头的动作真使人心碎..影片的摄影和剪辑也都还挺有意思的，尤其前面那部分。唯一就是还是太长了，超过一个半小时就一定会走神（
剪辑有趣、旁白有趣、手持抖动有趣，结尾遗憾。里面不少裸露画面都很自然，哈哈哈讲真我可做不到光着身子给男朋友跳舞哈哈哈哈～
和峰的惬意午后🤭
蛮喜欢众柱现身，但是画风台词创意真比不上BLEACH。
【IKSV】浓浓的复古质感重现了1931年柏林的社会风貌，时而穿插的旁白像说书人一样审视着主角的命运。故事不算特别但视听处理让电影极有神采，以沉湖作结真的再好不过。而且，有美美的汤姆·希林怎么能不爱！！！
真的有必要3个小时吗？叙事非常值得研究。前半小时更像是发泄，但才华洋溢。后面两个多小时就是喜欢叙事，又拖沓又无趣。但还是蛮值得研究的文本。
二战前夕，一个失业的文艺青年，在和女友约会的路上，见义勇为，不幸溺水而亡的故事。
故事和人物中都是关于时代和社会的厚重感与文化艺术观 剪辑中混杂着人物的情绪和社会氛围 比起普通的剧情片 这类艺术片的以小见大 以点概面的能力更强 历史中总是需要很多这类不一样的视角和角度 目的不是为了简单的还原历史 更深重的意义在于如何面对生活以及那个时代一些特殊独特的记忆
喜欢最开始的长镜头以及100年前“被呈现出的”柏林与真实景象交错而成的故事。朋友说拍出来了Kästner的核心，只是爱情和纳粹两个元素被过多强调了，人生的荒诞与孤独也不过如此... 现场见到了Schiling小哥还是很激动，他太适合Fabian这个角色了！
今年以来最满足的三个小时，有太多致命一击的时刻，前半个小时好像费里尼镜头下的罗马，又似乎从三十年代的柏林跳到了Velvet Goldmine的片场。电影行业发展到2021年还能泡出这样一壶回韵独特的茶汤，实在让人兴奋。鼻子上打石膏的女人、咖啡馆自动演奏的钢琴、掉进咖啡杯里的一滴眼泪。虽然怕你误会但是你能来我家吗，窗外的树很可怖，可是为什么有你在的今晚窗外的树都那么温柔，我饿了，甜点我想要你的三个吻，可以吗？我的好友自杀而亡，但我认为他死于谋杀，他不该在这个失序崩裂的时代有如此鲜明的政治立场，他不该孤注一掷要去完满那件文学史论文佳作，我愿意阻止任何一个意图轻生的人，不放过一丝救下他的可能。要学会游泳！沉入水底的那一刻，你会想到笔记本在地狱之火中燃烧吗？
剪辑有趣、旁白有趣、手持抖动有趣，结尾遗憾。里面不少裸露画面都很自然，哈哈哈讲真我可做不到光着身子给男朋友跳舞哈哈哈哈～
确实是左派忧郁。确实是。感同身受的。教授长得像沈林。
最心疼男妓院老鸨，希望自己有筹码慢慢推出去赢得欢心，被拒绝之后直接塞钱也还是无济于事。|原来不止我一个人有这样的想法，去对方的家乡，重新认识一个人
83/100，一個浪漫主義的色彩的康德主義者被一個道德淪喪，集體有意識發瘋的失控時代碾壓摧毀的故事。沒法說不好，但就是因為太好了，從拍攝，鏡頭調度，各種學院手法駕輕就熟，湯姆希林演這類的角色自然不用說，一如既往得好，好得在此種氣質的人物里無法指摘。也不知道是不是導演為了儘可能忠於文本而把結構內容鋪得這麽滿，太眼花繚亂反而少了一些風格的統一和驚喜。就是好，肯定是好，但也依然少了些跳脫，多了幾分中正的德式匠氣。當然是得再看的。
每一个镜头都是美丽的碎诗，每一句对白都是渴望中的破灭，每一个人物都是注定的悲剧，而这是人生的必然。但可以在最快乐的时刻意外死亡，如同布拉格之恋中的托马斯和特瑞莎，如同刺猬的优雅中的女门房，何尝不是生命绽放的意义？5星推荐，法比安。
之前下载一版先睹为快，但是没有声音，各种尝试未果，重新下载一版熟肉，在线也可以看，只是为了更清晰的截图，这样的电影🎦估计一遍不可能更理解。传统电影🎦画幅，还有各种镜头和对白的特色画外音融🈴了文学的特点。截图一遍硬盘投屏再一遍，多多益善。
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