Birth Certificate

Birth Certificate — Plot

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.

• Release date
• October 2, 1961
• Runtime
• 104 min
• Genres
• Drama, War
• Director
• Stanisław Różewicz

Birth Certificate — Cast

H

Henryk Hryniewicz Janek Wojciech Siemion Józef

E

Edward Mincer Zbyszek

A

Andrzej Banaszewski Heniek

P

Pawel Rózewicz Jacek

B

Beata Barszczewska Mirka Zofia Małynicz Refuge Manager Barbara Rachwalska Woman from the Forester