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."
1. 电影是好电影，题材由点及面涉及很多热点话题（很难不联想到我国一些事，所以你的国家我的国家大家都一样）情节跌宕多重反转，法庭戏不少台词都是能截图永留存的水平，缺点也有，时长疲惫，音乐铺得太满（毕竟印度电影）；2.“一个国家的尊严等同于它给女性的尊严”（道理都懂但我就是不改系列）；3.法律是道德的底线，刑法是法律的底线，然而这中间还有一条隐形的线叫程序正义，可迟来的正义还算得上正义吗；4.你以为的事实有时只是别人想让你看到的事实，无论哪个时代哪个国家，媒体都应该是真相的传声筒而非政治的喉舌；5.年轻人切忌过度激进或温水煮蛙，任何时候都不要急着站队，有时间多学习，不要在微博自诩判官；6.每每看到别的国家拍出这样的电影，我们总是会思考我国的审查与尺度并痛恨薛定谔的404（叹气）；7.陈思诚👌
印度电影每年都能留下至少一部直击痛点，震撼人心的片子，那中场休息拉开了剧情反转的帷幕。自杀，他杀只是一种死亡的表面方式，但真正的内核或许是体制，是时代。为了目的可以玩任何肮脏的游戏，但又有多少人愿意揭露这种肮脏，用革命的水洗涤这些肮脏。他确实不仅为自己发声，更多的是众人内心的扩音器，让肮脏在正义之声下一点点瓦解。
近3个小时的时长，却丝毫不会无聊，只能说精彩绝伦。电影本身也实现了多角度讨论:女性处境、教育腐败、政治阴谋、体制溃烂、种族歧视、舆论煽动、媒体操控、正义边界、法律公信等等，最精彩的是法庭辩论的部分，它不光是情节最大的舒张点，而更是一场关于法律与正义的辩论。
熬过前一小时，后面惊喜不断。印度针砭时弊的片子也够大胆，而只有这样敢于反思，敢于自揭伤疤的民族，国家和人民才有希望和未来呀。
我们都懂，国人对外语片最高的评价是“真敢拍啊”
法律的程序正义，政治操纵媒体，媒体操纵舆论。很敢拍，反转很多，有点<误杀>的感觉。（莎芭真的好美！！李总说是印度颜值天花板了哈哈哈
8.5/10.0，电影的毛病还是有的，比如过硬的情节转折，角色的过于脸谱化，过多纷繁复杂的角色，根本没法一一讲好。
前一个半小时不懂为啥8.6，后一个半小时这8.6打的值👏🏻
前面反转2次真的很好看啦，后面结尾是在埋伏笔？有2？上升高度大可不必，太像韩剧了。
将近3个小时，真的太长太长了。不得不说印度真的很敢拍啊，他们难道没有那种类似广电总局的存在吗？
因为豆瓣评分去看了这部电影，很感谢语焉不详的剧情介绍，让我在观影中获得了久违的爽感，无法预测的下一步走向，多面的角色设定，都好棒啊。莫说比不过韩国，现在的国产电影也远不及印度，想到前不久贾导的采访，可太讽刺了。
1知遇之恩，2无法一起变强的友谊该如何安放。不是剧场版，是两集拼的。最可爱给：嘟嘟嘴喝茶吹吹的三三老师；歪脖子露出金色铃铛耳环的三蓧帅。夏天了，后会有七。
关于舆论操控我建议看有关《We become what we behold》游戏的视频，会有更深的感悟。
印度又一部批判体制的电影，敢于发声的电影，对于热点社会议题没有进行更深层次的探讨，好在讲故事的手法，角色的反转，还能吸引人看下去。前面半个小时的处理不太好，为了后面法庭戏的反转模糊了故事，又想调动大众情绪，总是情绪先于故事，很难让人共情。
4分。虽然大家都知道印度电影尺度大，很多社会深层问题政治阴暗面都敢呈现出来，跟韩国电影一样，莫不拍手叫好，虽说也知道这些问题还会一直存在，拍完不会有丝毫改变，但看的过程就是很爽啊，我看也一样。但从另一方面来说，这电影时间冗长，很多唱歌片段也有点跳戏，结尾警察反转真的有点为了反转而反转之嫌，一些不好的地方也该是看到的。
越来越像我未来男朋友了呢 （不敢相信我如此厚脸皮 哈哈 好吧 反正没人看见）
直指印度社会乱象很有力度，但印度风太强不太能接受
算是好看，但好人坏人极端脸谱化，也是有点小儿科的。没有了舞，但还是不少歌，看来歌或舞，还是宝莱坞标配。
这剧本脑洞太可以了。
这部影片涉及了一个国家的公检法、媒体、学校、政府等各个组织，对不受约束特权的贪污腐败，权力和利益集团的勾结，政治制度的荒唐，政党间斗争的无耻，教育的破败，制度性的社会不公，三六九等的阶级分层固化和矛盾加剧，公民权力义务和政治参与方式等等问题进行了批判和反思。
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