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."
影片完成度很高。年代感和边城气都营造得不错。可惜女主动机成立牵强，编剧还自作心虚一个劲儿借男主口发问她为何要回来报仇。剧作也就现出硬伤。
剧情有点拉胯 但是铃木演的真好 甚至希望他把那个日冈警察打死😂最后居然没干过带着手铐的日冈我表示很疑惑………
研读日记、调查妓女前文工团舞蹈演员、拜访退休老警察获得生还受害者录音证词，画出连环杀手肖像，却是被枪杀死者；
这一集里没有孤狼，只有落水狗罢了。剧情还是比较冗长了，果然少了役所广司，恶警的感觉弱了，官僚体制下的警察果然是干不成任何事情的。铃木亮平把疯批极道演得很刑，无差别挖眼，冰锥插脑，激情断指，不守规矩的黑社会最终都是要吃枪子的。里面有斋藤工好评！
两个大的问题：1.过多的情感表达让电影丧失了悬疑片的紧迫感和压迫感；2.悬疑不悬疑，结局太好猜了。当然也有点神话了画像师。
小镇的色调，远山，背景，氛围感都特别好，男主画像师演员长相很有辨识度，气质也很相符；两位女主也很有气质和感觉，但看了一点，我这种对推理弱智的人都猜到了结果，悬疑太不够了。林音说话的调调就像是一个饱经了世事沧桑有了很多人生阅历的老人，一个二十来岁的沒出过县城的女孩，哪有那么深刻的人生感悟。还有那位刑警队长，莫名其妙讨厌画像师，片中也没表现出他有在分析案情，这个角色很莫名其妙。虽然剧情和角色都有bug，但我觉得这三个主演不错。
真的太牛了一定会再看的。这个编剧行云流水，不落窠臼，人物的性格承接的流畅。暴力美学了
摄影构图和调色加了一星，剧情着实有些平淡，重点放在了姐妹情回忆而不是侦缉推理，即便如此也没能表现出两个女角色间强烈的羁绊，最后的反转并不意外，有点可惜。
喜欢风格 喜欢看“拍那个时候”的中国电影；拍的很好 不输同风格日韩 剧情略逊色
这结局也是无语了，没有黑帮互杀，没有警察反转，跟第一部差距太大了
反派比上部亮眼，铃木亮平是唯一看点，他演的这种粗中有细，目无尊长的烂人才是黑社会最大的魅力所在，HK电影亦如是，想想吴镇宇在《古惑仔》里的存在。
你不能说抄一个诺贝尔的小说名就是戛纳片了吧，毕志飞逐梦演艺圈也报名过戛纳呢，真敢发通稿呢。
开始画面挺美的，要是调色更高级点就好了。不知道是摄影师的问题还是导演的问题，虽然镜头是精心设计的，不是瞎几把乱拍了，但还是略做作。不必要的景深镜头太多，并没有形成疏离感，还是不知道疏离感来自哪里，可能和剪辑也有关系，切来切去太快了，显得平庸，浪费了那些精心设计的镜头和调度。草丛里的惊悚氛围营造不太可，还不如《爱死机》第二季《高草地》，甚至和我第一个短片水平差不多，全靠音乐带。表演hin尴尬，看起来故事略《猎罪图鉴》。片名和海报以为是文艺片，其实并不是，看豆瓣介绍是悬疑，其实也不是，惊悚效果较之国内惊悚片还是质的飞跃了，我其实没敢看完，需要看两级纯喜剧压压惊😅虽然没看完但也不可能达到4星了，即便后面再不行我没敢看完，在国产惊悚片里面也可以打三星了吧，哈哈
导演以为穿上哪个时代的衣服，找几个旧宅，就能拍出好故事，配乐太突兀。
日本黑帮电影向来都有它独特的风格，本片黑帮主角塑造得非常立体，让人望而生畏，印象深刻。
远山淡影，画面唯美；人艰不拆，道具乱入。加一星给选角的——穿便服的，都帅帅的；戴盖帽的，都胖胖的。
當恐怖片看了，成功給我留下心理陰影。話說Nijiro演技成長了很多
很好的续集，暗黑杨宗纬还有sl500大白奔驰！
果然，严华没死顶替林音身份，这个影片最大反转影片很早就猜到了，和陈默是连环杀人犯一样，太好猜了反而没意思了。
最后，这片名不说还以为石黑一雄的小说拍电影了，多少有点蹭。Y
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