剧情介绍

  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."

评论:

  • 之沛白 6小时前 :

    ohhh my god 我理想中的gentleman

  • 卫斌 5小时前 :

    一定要去看现场!!!我坐在第三排的rush ticket!!!太温暖了!!!简单的旋转舞台玩出花了!!!这就是现场艺术!!!

  • 成鹤轩 9小时前 :

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  • 日骞 9小时前 :

    喜气洋洋喝碗911美国鸡汤。价值观不完全认同,因为立场差异很大,客观讲是好剧,因为我是客观立场。

  • 卫家丁 4小时前 :

    好的卡司确实能够掩盖剧本的局促,并且让影像高于平庸版本的真正舞台。2001-2011-2021,时代U字回转。

  • 侍华荣 2小时前 :

    去年初在现场看的时候就又哭又笑的,正值9·11二十周年,官摄上线,重温一遍我又是暴风哭泣。 这是一部相当优秀的群像剧,演员没有什么短板,剧情张弛有度,配乐和配器也很有意思。这群陌生人的相遇,虽说是因为一场改变了世界的悲剧,但却开出了善良温情的花。🥺

  • 嘉嘉 2小时前 :

    911二十周年,纽芬兰小岛上来自远方的人们,没什么记忆点的歌,女机长的solo曲最好听,剧情也就是传统鸡汤风格不太能打动内心,官摄拍得挺好的。

  • 习信鸥 9小时前 :

    室内剧,对于中年女性的“性羞耻”以及女性身材焦虑的探讨都太流于表面,不过当喜剧看看尚可,汤普森阿姨贡献了较高水准的演技.60/100

  • 奚瑾瑜 9小时前 :

    他提供的一次服务,不仅是肉体上的满足,还有情绪价值和身心愉悦。谁不想要呢?

  • 墨兴腾 5小时前 :

    看了女机长原型的采访,更感动了,她说她把这个看了101遍,每一遍都能从中获得感动和力量,导演没有长时间让观众沉浸在悲伤里,用inspiring的手法让人们记住了发生在纽芬兰岛Gander小镇的故事。

  • 旭涵 5小时前 :

    天降圣鸭!衰老不是最可怕的,最可怕的是老了没钱请鸭,所以,女人,趁着年轻多多挣钱吧。

  • 惠鸿熙 1小时前 :

    虽然唱的一般,但这个故事好感人啊,尤其是今天看,感触颇多。

  • 储书桃 5小时前 :

    在世界边缘的孤岛奏响人性力量的赞歌,人类应当对灾难保有一份共情,对善与爱怀揣一丝希望。Honor what was lost. Commemorate what was found.

  • 成如之 0小时前 :

    干了这杯枫叶国鸡汤,看得人老感动了QAQ 几年前在多伦多的Princes of Wales剧院看过这部音乐剧,卡司是哪个版本早不记得了,但音乐挺好听的令人印象深刻,是个蛮令人动容的故事而且它竟然真实发生过。计划去纽芬兰玩玩在b站重看了一遍,笑出猪叫,太有梗了,而且不知道为啥感染力十足,不管是冰球场当冰箱,村里人手一件的黑红格子衬衫,Shoppers DM和Timmy’s,还有酒吧里的Molson霓虹灯。最喜欢女机长独白的那一段,太飒了。最近在看纽芬兰旅游局的一个节目,俩大妈在岛上各处收集民间故事,在甘德就见到了照顾飞机上动物的两位镇民,剧里来自德克萨斯的女士和英国绅士的互诉衷肠的Dover Fault 瞭望塔也成为了当地津津乐道的定情之处,可太有意思啦哈哈哈哈

  • 定康平 8小时前 :

    艾玛姨赛高!

  • 彩帛 8小时前 :

    还是那个永恒的难题:轻与重,你到底渴望怎样的人生?太重了当然想扔掉一切规则轻盈的飞上天,过一过云上的日子,太轻了又希望有稳稳的幸福,让脚步能踏实的走在大地上。于是很多关系,很多选择,就在生命里如钟摆晃来晃去,若即若离。

  • 振嘉 5小时前 :

    没有什么比真诚对待自己和别人更美好的事了,更没有什么比直面自己更勇敢的事了。

  • 公良?涵涤 7小时前 :

    故事素材不用说。关键是舞台形式,给人启发。

  • 吉涵菡 7小时前 :

    此外还很喜欢关于不同族裔的部分,地球村的故事就像一个真实存在的童话。不需要懂得同一种语言,因为我记得上帝曾在某一编码处说过各族坚信的圣言;口中祷词有着不同的词句,但全心去爱吧,这是我们通行世界的准则。

  • 呼若薇 8小时前 :

    原来纽芬兰的英文是 Newfoundland,还真是简单直接呀

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