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."
昨天发现我们家附近的电影院有修复版的《永不消逝的电波》的彩色电影，一天两场还都是没什么人的时间段，票价也才20块钱一张，比起《长津湖》动不动五六十一张的电影票，真的相当便宜了，正好爷爷也想去看看，我就跟他一起去了。
男女主真的帅，汪蒋共三方斗法也颇具看点，只是鬼子演的太戏剧化。管中窥豹，奠定之后谍战剧所有套路和模式。（汪的男反派真有格调，穿着太洋气啦
我小时候印象里的孙道临永远都是一部儒雅风度翩翩的模样，而正是这样一个看起来手无缚鸡之力的书生，却有着最坚定的革命意志，而他最后在敌人的枪口下仍然坚持发报，我相信一定会成为影史上不会忘记的画面。
挺有感触的电影，视角有点狭窄，更多的是塑造人物形象而不是讲故事
剧情紧凑又张弛有度，今天的和平是无数英雄们的努力和牺牲换来的。
爷爷是从那个年代过来的人，他一边看一边掉眼泪。
20210716 补看 经典。确立了日后中国大陆谍战片这一独特类型的一系列主要范式和语码，如上海、电台、假夫妻、后方（延安）和前线（上海）的信息交换与人员往来等等。这个过程中又包含了假戏真做的过程中对于革命工作的理解和革命主体的成长等主题。王萍的舞台剧背景赋予电影形式上的强烈风格，如布光、置景，以及孙道临精彩的演出等等，电影已经开始初步显露出根据阶级区隔的脸谱化特征，某种程度上削弱了谍战混沌真假难辨的主题。而“同志，永别了，我想念你们”则是时代的记忆。
不理解，炸桥的方式还是通过手枪击中炸药包而引爆，为何一定要人去往坦克肚子下面钻。强行牺牲 还有就是总部怎么一点儿支援部队都跟不上，敌人的增援部队都到了，我方一人没有，总部认为我方炸桥的部队有多少人？多少装备？ 除了是个爱国题材，让人看了心疼志愿军的困难环境，感受他们的不屈精神，这部影片的作战计划，可谓称得上没读过兵书一般。
为孙道临的俊俏脸庞加半星，但还是更喜欢他海派知识分子的扮相，红色英雄就不太适合... 况且这片子为了捧一踩一真是够了，党员连受刑的样子都能不拍就不拍，拍到了也要保持稳重优雅，反派则极尽丑恶。但要说它最能打动人的地方，应该是坚定的理想信念，现代人(所见即所得)真的很缺这个。还注意到了影片三对男女搭档中女性的作用：女主是男主的参照物，用自身的脆弱衬托男主的坚毅。白小姐是老孙的下属，负责落实老孙的指令。蛇蝎美人负责替反派男出头作恶。看出来了，正面女只能做陪衬，反派女才能大放异彩。: )
易烊千玺饰演的万里的成长线真的很让人心疼，战争让一个少年迅速衰老三十岁…
很喜欢很喜欢很喜欢！看完了舞剧，知道彩色版上映后迅速买了影院的票，排片不算少但是时间都不太好，主要是早上8.9点的时间多。剧情上相当抓人，非常耐看令人回味，孙道临真帅啊，那双眼睛如同清泉水～希望有更多人可以走进影院看到这部剧！不比什么长津湖之流好多了🙄
好多年前看过，今天组织观看；还是非常敬佩这些为了新中国的建立奋斗、牺牲的人。
如果从电影的拍摄手段或者电影画面来看，这部电影没什么技巧，只是在讲一个好故事。
剧情几度起伏波折。有几处衔接还不算尽善尽美，但无损于我对李侠的喜爱。有智慧，有勇气，坚定信仰，数番化险为夷。最后的告别越从容，越令人动容
小时候看过不知多少遍，现在看还是觉得有当年没发现的细节和好处。那时表现的信仰是有光芒的，就像孙道临的目光晶晶亮、表情质朴而灿烂。李侠和萧涧秋都是那种被理想点燃的，前者坚定到最后，后者迷惘再出发，他们和高觉新不一样。然而不管角色如何变，孙道临的内在气质始终如一：他真好看。
致敬先烈。千玺真的太好了，结尾寥寥几句台词，几段特写表情，给我哭得稀里哗啦。整体比上部好很多，少来一些慢镜死亡回放会好很多。整体来看，上下部一起全景展现长津湖战役，算是中国电影对先烈的祭奠吧。
4K彩色修复清晰度不错，至于彩色的效果做不到完美也丢失了黑白片特有的美感，孙道临在这部的核心还是那坚定的神情，真是打动观众了。
“他点划清楚，清澈的像一汪清水”
首部黑白转彩色4k修复的故事片，大银幕观看加分不少，虽然电影手法跟表演方式会过时，但是革命先烈的故事与精神是不朽的，孙道临演绎了什么是正气长存，大义凛然，最后一封电报发出了，李侠的精神却永存于电波中。“同志们，永别了，我想你们”7.3
节奏紧凑，流畅。谁懂我熊熊燃烧的爱国心！！！
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