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."
场面一如既往的激烈、爱国氛围浓重，抗美援朝实属不易～剧情还可以在加强一下
没有公正客观的责任……
徐克的“独自上场”，令时长虽未减去多少却大幅提升观感的下集，成了最符合大档期需求的动作类型片，很多上集里被单纯渲染为狂轰滥炸的场面都被注入“有趣”的设计，无用但必需的文戏也成了头尾的装点，更为凸出战斗转场的层次感与刺激点的连续。
全程打，没有起伏，音乐衔接不好，例如刚刚煽情完，又来个悲壮音乐……
那一群为新中国付诸了生命的最可爱的人们！！！
（华夏影城长沙龙湾商业广场店）陪长辈去影院看完了这部电影，第一感觉就是真的太长了，电影叙事大逻辑含糊，很拖拉。说实在的，剧情、画面、演员的演技特效都可以，就真的是太拖拉了。原本以为结束了，又整一个小高潮，高潮完了想着终于要结束了吧，md又来一个刺点，转折太多都有点看腻了。另外最后是哪位大佬把三位指导导的戏合在一起的？敢情是谁也不想得罪么，电影结尾就是三位导演的三段结尾生接在一起，甚至看风格就知道哪一段结局是哪一位大佬的风格。最后一段结局结束的时候的结尾音乐也是很硬，和画面不相融。整体来看，从画面、演技来看，给电影四星，剧情拖拉扣一星，综合三星。
2011.11.11 居然还有下一部吗 蹲一个 2022.2.20 第22.2万人看过 在1090看的 伍万里的成长线真让人心疼 一开始大家都在 一开始大家都意气风发 到最后全员be了 “七连应到157人，实到1人！”
如果觉得故事单薄，就去看第一部。如果觉得人物不丰满，就去看第一部。如果觉得动机模糊，就去看第一部。作为续集真的是完美的答卷（排除所有的静止镜头）。谁说我们没有英雄主义，我们每一个人都是历史的答案。
虽说这种片子对演技要求不高，但是演员们你们能再敷衍一点吗。
相比同期的狙击手 仿佛没有了个体的情感与内心变化 只有群像式的宏伟与悲壮 大场面的视效看多了总会让人生厌 落得到最后也不过就是总该如此的不痛不痒
自己人越打越少，美国军队一直都在增援，且武器装备精良。听到七连报到“应到一百五十七人，实到一人”哽咽，瞬间破防。
一个命令！炸桥！！志愿军们毫不犹豫视死如归死死坚持完成任务，这绝对是装备优渥充足的美国人难以想象的，竟能以装备捉襟见肘的紧迫却能打败他们的，是那背后钢铁般的意志和爱国的精神。
“因民族已到存亡之际，我辈只能奋不顾身，挽救于万一。我的肉体即将陨灭，我的灵魂与你们同在。敌人不会了解，老鬼，老枪。不是一个人，而且是一种精神，一种信仰。”
6/10。徐克将悲情美学和霹雳迅猛的动作场景，在一次次桥毁墩塌的巨大震响和粉碎性爆射中推向情绪的彻底释放。志愿军声东击西、擒贼擒王，打掉探照灯、炸掉弹药堆、突入水泵房、高速滑雪山、冲进坦克底，他们的骨肉被坦克碾碎，为保全集体扑向手雷、吸引敌机密集的枪弹，吞没于大片燃烧弹制造的火海，最后万里抱着哥哥遗体滚下烧化的雪流，以惨重牺牲来扭转战局，美国人则是以逸待劳、兵来将挡，出动成批浩荡疾驰的坦克、遮天蔽日的轰炸机、从天而降的钢桥梁，压迫着幸存的志愿军，整个战局布满谋划、应变，颇有武侠小说风味。不过历史呈现上仍有迎合的趋向，数百名志愿军进攻炸桥却无力阻挡美军安全撤退的真实情况，被缩减成小分队虽败犹荣的壮举，并拍摄了敌舰仓皇逃离的岸边被志愿军高举枪支淹没、红围巾迎风飘扬的胜利场面，以弥补歼敌未成的挫败感。
致敬为新中国成立和发展的革命先辈。
2022-2-15 单位组织 还丢了围巾。不值当啊
没有林超贤的战争戏和陈凯歌的文戏明显就没有灵魂了。
挺感人的
相对比来说血肉模糊的场景已经比较少了，故意一瞬间带过
很惨烈的牺牲，历史的车轮就是这样推动起来。但是剪和拍的大概快一个小时才引起我的兴趣。
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