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."
电影在做到剧情好看，又能传递文化思想，不局限于某一价值观的强制教育，难能可贵。丁若铨一句“性理学和洋学问并不是相冲的，是要一起前行的朋友”，大有包容之意，不管韩国目前政治与大众如何，只说这部电影，导演借古表达出自己十分通彻的想法。继承与吸收，兼容并包，有容乃大，这些我们常说的话，现实却已被狭隘的民族（cui）主义潜移默化侵蚀……
为何而学？功名利禄？外在身份？改变命运？而那些知识若是盔甲，遮掩内心的尘埃，离“人为何而来，为何而去”渐渐远去呢？
不得不承认韩国的文化经营真是有点恐怖，因为他们不光有夺人文化的强烈意志，还有着将源自中国的文化进行深加工并二次输出的惊人实力，看完这个也明白了国产影视在产业链上的缺漏和差距有多多多大。明知对方是鼠窃狗偷之辈，但偏偏身为嫡传正宗的自己就是没有拿的出手的文化作品去证明，只能靠民间的爱国热情去对抗，这真是很憋屈的啊。
画面好美呀。晴耕雨读，人生永远有路走，永远有重要的事可以去做，格物永无止境。但是怎么说呢，片子没什么回味
2、影片表面上讲的是一个贬谪士大夫的流亡生活，道出的却是人生意义的真相——所谓人生的意义，其实只是自己的事。你觉得有意义，那就有意义。由此想到一句话：知识都是灰色的，而生活的金树长青！说得真好。
“如白鹤之生虽好，而兹山之污泥亦善也”
人之有限事之无奈，贬谪不可归，苛政猛于虎。唯春花秋月山水苍翠大海无言。
流放生活这么惬意的吗？不过看他们作的五绝七绝怎么那么想笑呢，打油诗的感觉了
不可错过的一部黑白电影，用出世的心态来获取人生，用入世的渴望来造福于民，很难说谁更胜一筹，只是时势造就
在电影院看的，一个人包场，黑白加古装，台词有些也听不太懂，而且，途中我还睡了一觉。
田心，黑山《经世遗表》，学习一下？
世道那么污浊，不如研究一些通透之物。可能对于个人来说确实是最好的选择，但我实在是忍不住要想，如此这般，那些受尽苦难的人要怎么办呀。不过片中好奇开放的态度还是挺好的。
三星半。确实如短评所说：宗教在片中太符号化；西学表现得太浅显；讲友情也太平庸了；儒学表达又太刻意炫技；反两班和贪吏反得又太样板；反君王制度反得太仓促，快结束了才匆匆登场。只能说，求马唐肆吧。这部电影其实真的讲得挺肤浅的，但真理还就是这么肤浅，所以无人在意。回到最初的那个儒家，有反骨的儒家，也就是反对法利赛人的耶稣。最感动我的是兄弟分别一幕，“苦寒念尔衣裳薄”。好处是避免了sentimental，坏处是辞官一节未免drama。又，想起远藤周作《沉默》。
①百姓们把土地当做农田，官吏们把百姓当做农田。②朱子的力量，真是强大啊。
之前看到有评论说很可惜，这剧本可以国内拍的，看完觉得纯属放屁，这内核是大陆不可能拍出来且上映的
对那个来说是罪人，来到我家就是客人。朴实的妇人明白，但许多人不明白。
千百年来，人性不曾改，政治也就不曾改，一代一代只是重复不是前进。自我与时代的对抗，虽注定失败，但却无比闪亮。因此，结尾才让人如此动容。要说，这部如诗如画浪漫理想主义作品也有缺点，即对于出世入世的讨论过于追求戏剧化。幸好，两位优秀的男演员撑住了两个人物。
若不能按照所学的来生活，就得按照自己的性格来活……
“若不能按自己所学的来生活，便按自己的性格去生活。”
拍得真好啊，韩国电影这几年真的令人刮目相看。不仅有属于自己的风格，拍有中华文化的电影都那么讲究和认真，真的值得中国电影反思啊。后半段官僚体制真的让人想到那句伤心秦汉经行处，宫阙万间都做了土。兴，百姓苦；亡，百姓苦。
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