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."
额，反正就是一个吃人头大怪物不断找傀儡，为他寻找猎物。
垃圾编剧……完全通过拖沓和黑暗营造恐怖紧张的气氛……当爹的仿佛空气一般的存在，女儿经过鬼吹灯后离奇失踪，竟然只靠女主来作为侦破主力，全程死板推进，很多惊悚镜头给的也是莫名其妙，比如小儿子在游戏室玩游戏的时候类似算盘的珠子移动和暗门的开启，女主和小儿子经过类似智障之间的几句对话后竟然直接翻篇，对暗门开启和小儿子莫名其妙数数走向暗门完全视而不见……作为丈夫更是完全没有任何参与，为何不把剧情设定为单亲妈妈带俩娃的故事？小儿子也仿佛木头一般的存在，演技完全不在线。恶魔也是弱到爆，这一露面简直让我吐血，还不如西游记里的牛魔王吓人，真的还不如不露面……进到另一纬度空间到万人广场找女儿什么鬼？原路返回后竟然开始中国鬼打墙？房子出口又接上了地窖楼梯……那万人广场怎么解释？总之整部电影演的乱七八糟又莫名其妙
看名字就知道很随意，但是电影开头质感还不错，你接着看，就会发现，你一开始的判断没有错，就是很随意跟烂，古老的恶魔的技能，就是控制人数数……爱尔兰到底是多害怕数学，数数有啥可怕的🤨你看完就会发现，你浪费了一个多少小时都不理解，数数！有啥？可怕的！？怎么的就能5分以上？？？
——后来巴风特闪亮登场，我才意识到自己其实是期待了个寂寞~~
好片，值得看，这恐怖得有水平有创意，通往地狱的数字台阶原来是物理学家和魔鬼的一笔交易。诡异事件都是胡思乱想出来的，自然有大把漏洞，看着玩别当真。
15-086美国《恐怖地窖》
墙上的鬼脸好像祸具魂哈哈哈，恐怖蜡像馆的女主也老了
要不是最后的反转最多两星。前面的悬念很好，但是不少的分析解说都是无用功，错误方向，让人怀疑凑时间。地狱做得不错
【2022-5-2】氛围感营造的还可以，宗教系恐怖略加分，怎么回事现在对恐怖片要求越来越低了只要没有离谱到搞笑的行为逻辑我好像都能包容…
不错，好久没看团灭的恐怖片了。女儿全程无表情，好期待最后一幕母亲回头，女儿（鬼魅）笑一笑，但没有发生
除了最后那点怪物出现的时候算是亮点， 其他部分太冗长了，看完就感觉，没一个好人，唯一的好人还智商不在线去送人头
不恐怖，不吓人，不聪明。即猜到了开头，也猜到了结局，但系没猜到这是个妖蛾子的故系。
剧情反转，女主嫌弃自己母亲拖累，杀了，然后偷渡美国，然后遇到变态两兄弟，反杀。
恐怖气氛做得不错，故事也很有创意，导演中间误导了观众，还以为和数学和量子定律有关，实质上还是个关于魔鬼的故事，总体来说值得一看，比前段时间大厂狗尾续貂的那几部恐怖片强多了。。
当年隔壁的美腻小姐姐成了隔壁大妈。。。爷青结
4.5/10，看得我昏昏欲睡，本片最大亮点是怪物的造型，光怪物本身就值4分。
最后是女主坚强的意志把鬼物制服了？然后又体会了鬼的厉害，自己住下来开始重复包租公兄弟的事业了？
气氛不错，情节太简单，纯靠配乐混了。硬生生的把薛定谔拉进去了，装饰高级感，也无法挡住两星评价
邻家女优真漂亮，40了风韵犹存，整个电影就看她去了
开头以为是《异国阴宅》类型的幻想恐怖片，没想到是关于邪神的惊悚恐怖片，蝴蝶仙需要被祭祀就能让人恢复健康（光头献祭女性后身体恢复正常，女主献祭了房东后受伤的脚就好了），这种祭祀形式很少见，邪神的样子真的够惊艳。
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