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."
这是一部记述年轻的北野武成名路上的故事，这故事里有恩师深见千三郎，有心底喜欢的千春，有共同打闹奋斗的师兄弟们……有了他/她们，才有了后来的北野武。也许，人生就是这样，让我们带着遗憾向前走。
真挚的师生情，看似粗糙却细致入微。最让人感动的地方，是北野武给师傅递高跟鞋那个场景，千言万语尽在不言中了。另外，很喜欢的两位女演员：门胁麦和铃木保奈美都担当了重要角色，让影片增色不少。
浅草小子的前奏一响，简直是犯规。看了很多北野武写家族的故事，这一部的重点放在了师徒情，更加丰富立体，喜欢。
剧情：8
两位演员演的真好，所以师徒情也足够真切让人泪目，片中几处悬崖勒马的编排也非常克制而温柔，可惜最后一镜到底廉价煽情到底还是让人难为情了。
真实诚挚的情感，每个角色都立体丰满，敬麻里老板娘一杯！
综合：8.2
结尾好啊，北野武回到老地方，师傅和太太 搭档大家都在 还是喊着阿武 好像什么都没有变
红鳉鱼的姊妹篇 终于明白了北野武为什么满口八个牙路以及为什么他的电影里经常跳踢踏舞了 挺动人的一段背景故事 以及 奈飞真的稳 有Netflix 的海报就看吧 不亏
把北野武早年经历拍的这么无趣也真可以，剧团一人不好意思，还是想说很浪费演员………
结尾好啊，北野武回到老地方，师傅和太太 搭档大家都在 还是喊着阿武 好像什么都没有变
片子算不上多好，节奏略跳脱，很多情节的目的性都很明确，属于煽了但没用力煽。
“师傅你就是性子急，有火葬场烧你骨灰，你干嘛自己先动手……”看到此处暴雨般哭泣。看的时候一直在回想北野武和二宫和也演的《红鳉鱼》，还在想，北野武和世界赛扬娜拉那天，他自己一定会笑着说，笨蛋，我死了这件事居然让你这么难过？PS.服化道满分，结尾的长镜头记忆穿越太棒！2022最佳运镜提名！
日本，2021。最后20分钟重磅催泪弹，真实性加强了深度，厚度和美感，超越一切虚假叙事。北野武的个人经历，和声望，让此部电影拥有无比震撼的力量，在浅草的脱衣舞和演绎剧场，依旧拥有野花般自然生长的动人的师徒情
好像在度过人生中最璀璨的日子的时候自己总是不自知的，甚至认为那是辛苦的、窘迫的。我们努力逃离的地方，要靠后来的日子不断去追忆。电影拍得远远不及北野武的人生精彩，而那个叫深见的家伙才是真正的浅草小子吧，这个人物算是做成了。
演技：8
这种叙事节奏才是我的菜。北野武本身就是个充满魅力的人，柳乐优弥的表演虽然顶级，但一颦一笑略带一丢丢刻意。最后，有被师徒情感动到。一日为师终身为父一点都不假，当然得是有伯乐眼光的良师。
两三个月前才知道“漫才”这个词这种表演艺术，这么快就看到发源地领创者的传记，有些神奇。坚持喜剧表演的师傅、不停拿私房钱支持师傅坚守理想的师娘，看到铃木保奈美时吃了一惊，几场戏真是佩服她的表演，无论是在脱衣舞台上、陪酒时、借钱时，拿钱给师傅出去请徒弟吃饭时。全片非常有人情味
我们是谐星，笨蛋！我们逗你笑，不是被你笑！去告诉观众什么才是有趣的！从剧场，短剧，漫才到电视，《菊次郎的夏天》里阿武还在跳踢踏舞呢！！！！
深见千三郎对于剧场喜剧艺术的见解，跟马三立很像：“不是被人笑，而是逗人笑。”“相声不是出怪声，不是超刺激。”郭德纲跟北野武也挺像的：说别人不敢说或不屑于说的段子，被曲协/漫才协会封杀，有钱之后大买名牌，极具攻击性的幽默与人格。其实老派的做艺人，多少都有些相似。艺人这路不好走，不种地，不上班，不做买卖，更不当官，却能让你心甘情愿地把口袋里的钱掏给他，这就是“艺”。因为我自己有“艺”，所以我不用谄媚观众，甚或而言，你能观赏到我的艺术，那是你的荣幸。这样，艺人无形中就引领了娱乐的风潮，掌握了关于“喜剧”的话语权，形成了团体，造就了行业。但无论到什么时候，艺人不能忘了艺，要不然，就只是个骗吃骗喝的凡人了。终于明白为什么《座头市》最后要跳踢踏舞了，原来是ビートたけし在致敬自己的师匠。
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