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."
3.5 “北欧人”，站在火山地狱口的两人
守到名单出来了都没见到彭彭和丁满非常失望！尼尔盖曼读者表示对mead的使用方法十分熟悉啊哇哈哈~ 能看这么多封建迷信真是太棒了！比约克也没唱两句差评
用电影方式来呈现的一篇北欧萨迦。原来莎剧《哈姆雷特》对原著中的维京民族风做了巨大的删减。
目前有的几条机翻字幕看的有点头疼。北欧风情有了，视听也够了，可惜这次导演忽视了故事，很空洞
并不是改编莎翁，而是模仿莎翁，面对戏剧化的莎翁风格，令人意外的是，所有长镜头、彰显调度的戏都让人一刻也无法挪开视线，而那些形式感和舞台感强烈的戏，却始终总有说不出的生硬与违和，所有荒蛮、杀戮、暴力、阴谋甚至乱伦的戏都令人愉悦，而企图以仪式化塑造文明感的戏是那么造作，所有作者化的部分都那么迷人，而类型化的部分是那么格格不入。我没有那么爱这部电影，但是我爱死了电影里每一个长镜头和配乐的每一个音符
宿命的主题是我喜欢的，复仇我也不排斥，在神话故事里有着超越人类的存在我也能同意，但是我觉得它们应该有最起码的内在联系，即使是模糊的、暧昧的。宿命是什么？宿命是人的自由意志无法逃脱其生存环境的制约，但是，当有着与人并无太多内在联系的更高主宰来指引人类时，自由意志就无从说起。
梁朝伟rio辛苦，活了千年突然就春心动了，出门买个菜突然老婆就没了，跟儿子打着打着就被吸光了，中间还要帮迪士尼甩掉满大人的锅...
配乐，画面，各种部分，拿个8分是没问题的。但是为什么每次我去电影院看电影时，想看动作片但总能整出文艺片，北欧人一样，蝙蝠侠也是。里面对北欧文化刻画的很真实，很多次我都在想为什么主角不直接拿刀冲上去，或者他叔不直接砍死主角，后面才知道，哇哦，这是部落文化！如果客观来说，这是一部好电影，毕竟画面什么的都太美了，但主观来看，san值狂掉，各种宗教文化，ntr，以及蜜汁操作，如果不带入这些文化真的一种要烂的感觉。喜欢宗教的可以看看，如果就想看个商业片放松一下，那还是算了。
风格相当讨喜，但是一个压抑的复仇故事，前面节奏还挺好，后面已经完全没有power了。
莎翁再再再改编，有奴隶但是没黑人，我第一个不同意，这个片子不行。
最令人共情的反派
本来没抱什么期待，但看下来还是特别不错。微博上的段子，梁朝伟和陈法拉怎么生出了尚气的颜值，但看完整个电影，觉得刘思慕还是很帅，憨憨的
就是把哈姆雷特改编成北欧版，加上光膀子猛男互殴，爱情戏可以跳过
仿佛一场大型魔幻舞台剧。台词不多 但每句台词都让“华丽”到让人想笑。场景的衔接莫名其妙。叔叔每次都出去守卫了个寂寞 让男主进到家里 这剧情真是搞笑。拍这种电影简直是资源浪费 不知道小演员有没有心理阴影。同样是决斗 这决斗可比最后的决斗差十万八千了，观影中只想着 怎么还不结束 硬撑着看完了
这难道不是最强文化输出？girl power点赞。
画面挺美，但是故事有点薄弱和邪乎…以及实在太血腥了
近中世纪的北欧王国斗争
是那种饱含着动物性的人性，粗莽炽烈却被缚，永不熄灭且永远无法熄灭。审美真是绝了。
看了一半的时候以为是颠覆王子复仇记，强调女性意识，到头来还是红颜祸水的论调。9000万的预算去哪了？拍大景和请大咖了？以前导演的a24是神棍片，那一种不明所以的惊悚感全然消失。还是老老实实玩惊悚小成本吧，期待下一部安雅的吸血鬼吧，，，
摄影美术啥的都还不错，就是略显老套的王子复仇记的故事配不上这个片名，格局小了，不知道的以为你拍的是克努特大帝或者是古斯塔夫二世呢
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