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."
花束みたいな恋をしたanother version
这对荧幕cp太违和尴尬了。最出彩的竟然是尾崎世界观。#tiff2021
叙事不够紧凑，不过总体故事立意还可以。压缩到九十分钟，可能素质会更好
哈哈哈，五个少年十分可爱，就是结尾有点。。。。说不出来的别扭。
也不知道该说些什么了，就觉得真是一部挺好的电影、拍了一段挺好的感情、还找了一对挺好的演员。可能疫情发生之后总给自己不经意灌输「向前看」的鸡汤吧，这部电影一下子让我觉得偶尔沉溺于过去之中也没有不好的。曾经常去的店、常见的人、常做的事，如今都多多少少丢了踪影，可是只要能稍微想起一些，也觉得像是下雨天时身边出现一把伞一样，没那么空落落的。很多再不去做就晚了的事情固然重要，但是那些再不回忆起来就会彻底忘记的事情，也是具有分量的。
前半段套路很无聊，在又一次解散后张伟跳入泳池独自练习开始变得有趣了一些，就算教练是管伙食的如何，就算节目被删掉了又如何，为青春和热血，为好听的插曲加上半颗星吧！虽然小视频救局和一池子男人齐舞有点扯，但难度不够人数凑也算是诚意了。
片子过半才开始训练 抓住了原版的中二 却没有抓住人物精髓 太多烂片的存在 导致很多人对电影的评判标准降低 才会给这部打四星以上吧
大概就是比花束般的恋爱要好一百倍吧。前面还觉得有点俗套，等到再次跳回到现在这个节点，一切都扣上，就觉得那种遗憾和失去的感觉实在是太真实了，太强烈了。
我们平庸 但我们还有努力 我们没有天赋 但我们勇往直前 教育不是口号大过天 因为再笨拙都是独一无二 全片能看出导演的用心 对每一个水上水下镜头的用力 捕捉到每一处演员的闪光点 然鹅票房和很多人的青春一样让人遗憾 好在会有影片替我们把前程理想化 永远青春 永远热泪盈眶 永远在路上
so酱演伤心罗曼史；尾崎的配乐（病态的元气）其实跟池松壮亮的氛围（欲言又止的小心收藏的真诚）很不搭
不狗血，没大奇迹，青春片。有笑有泪，有爱情的萌芽。好像能看到普通人的影子，但是又很不普通。“我们只被自己定义”
笑点不断，整体挺轻松挺自然的。选角很好，演得也够热血。
也不知道该说些什么了，就觉得真是一部挺好的电影、拍了一段挺好的感情、还找了一对挺好的演员。可能疫情发生之后总给自己不经意灌输「向前看」的鸡汤吧，这部电影一下子让我觉得偶尔沉溺于过去之中也没有不好的。曾经常去的店、常见的人、常做的事，如今都多多少少丢了踪影，可是只要能稍微想起一些，也觉得像是下雨天时身边出现一把伞一样，没那么空落落的。很多再不去做就晚了的事情固然重要，但是那些再不回忆起来就会彻底忘记的事情，也是具有分量的。
在生活里捕捉失魂的瞬间并以此激发出场域的气味——最终收拢为情绪的象征法。不执着于转折的发生，而是或前置或后置的去描摹状态。真正属于电影语法的日常切面。
三星半归为四星。阳光、清凉、自然、纯真，不矫揉不造作的青春片质感拍出来了，观感甚佳！对我而言高潮在男主独舞那场戏就结束了，随后感觉五个独特的形象又淹没在人海之中，最后的戏里都不太找得到这五个扑水的少年了，可惜了。
日版轻松戏谑的高校青春派风格，国产版以“张伟”的成长心路为主导线，寓意每个平凡生命可以活出精彩，国产节奏更偏教育意义一点。这也没什么不好，剧本大致走向是一样的。直到团体上线，专业教练，临时取消，集体冒险，编剧逐渐离大谱。我觉出的味是国产编剧没能走出“团结紧张严肃活泼”这几个指导意见总纲。然后在这种高大上结构里，硬要把少年的青春秀同样拉高到正式比赛，人生梦想等等，就让原有的故事架构变形了。
本土化非常成功
一向偏爱文艺电影的我，居然不经意被这样一部青春热血片感动，大概只为了片尾的那一句：“我们，只被自己定义。”希望每个逝去的青春，都不曾被辜负。
三星半，不做作、不刻意、不油腻、不教条、不空洞，蛮可爱的少年们。结尾再有点留白就好了。
倒叙版《花束般的恋爱》《地球之夜》。欧容的《5X2》也是这样的结构，倒放徒增了一些伤感。像白开水一样的爱情，没有跌宕起伏的情节，都是草蛇灰线，但是过几天后你总是会想起来，这两年好多日本爱情电影都是这样，余味不在当天。【幻月字幕组】
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