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."
法律和道德的正义不对等的时候，法律保护了哪一方？最后的辩论部分真的压抑又精彩～
这个系列，无疑是希望要引起大家的共鸣和感动。但是者却是这些章节里最缺乏的，因为他们承载了太多的任务，离真实和接地气太远了。唯一让自己引起共鸣是那段曾经的广告。
永远怀疑。
片子要讲的是在道德差异下，法律究竟能产生如何的效果？片子遗留的问题不可能被囫囵吞枣的一股子归结于是谁的，由此引发的个人思考是：人的生长背景甚至心理发展的差异都会决定每个人对一件事的看法完全不一致，文字与语言也在不断扭曲着个人的意识使人无法达成真实的沟通，所以对于一件事的认知永远都不会平等，争取到的权力永远是个人的，那么每一个在互联网高举政治旗帜的人是否根本也是在利己或者唯心的困境里走向了不同的疯狂？
秉着呼吸看完。其实，世事确实并非一直表露出黑与白，但真相却一直是，也应该是能表露出的。我们有太多的灰色地带被用于开脱，有太多屈服于权力的沉默。可沉默也是有含义的，法治也好，社会也罢，应该是沉默越来越少，确定越来越多。能看到这样一部探讨“沉默”的电影，减少沉默与灰色地带的电影，内心高兴。
不敢表态选择立场建议别拍社会热点话题：）过于客观即为偏袒：）全世界都在为upperclasswhiteboy扫清障碍：）
让上一年大获成功的“泽塔”狂揍这一年被钉在耻辱柱上的“特利迦”，看似为圆谷迷友们出了一口恶气，但如果我们品味一下根元岁三的这个脚本，实际不仅仅是未将“特利迦”从TV的史诗级尴尬中解救出来，还狗尾续貂的破坏了“泽塔”正篇故事近乎圆满的结局，于是“特利迦”在把自己彻底搞臭的同时，又给无辜的“泽塔”也摸了一把黑；说来也是可笑而诡异，我们竟因为对坂本浩一的怀疑和鄙视而居然开始期待起武居正能来，或许一切从一开始就已经全盘皆错了，特摄演出无聊、低级、单调、冗长，动作戏唯一的趣味点竟然只是在模仿摔跤擂台赛，还不如坂本组呢，本篇部分一众主演扯着嗓子喊天喊地生怕不如TV中白痴精分；今年“戴卡”的主监督和系列构成确定是武居和根元无疑，但哪怕“戴卡”造型再怎样深得我心，也无法不抱有强烈的谨慎和质疑，真的被整怕了。
20-min thrill, ridiculous. 女性应该要有拒绝的勇气和底气。
3.0/10。已经没救了，又可以弃坑一次啦。
泪目，名字叫Z篇主角却不是泽塔。
这部电影由4个故事组成，最喜欢的还是沈腾那个。吴京、章子怡、徐峥的那三段故事，我觉得剧情转折还是太生硬了。
双方对于该事的不同理解，说不上谁对谁错。但是作为男方，挺赞同男主父亲的一番话。
D'après moi, c'est plutôt chef-d'œuvre.Il y a plein de mise en scènes qui sont vraiment impressionnant, quant à l'histoire, ce qui nous pousse à réfléchir plus profond avec les personnages.
故事是真不错，也引人深思，不过说道法治社会，证据才是关键
庭审戏太精彩了，台词量大的戏一般不爱看，但这部精彩到想要二刷。真相是绝对的吗？真相难道只在每个人心里吗？
战争时代父辈舍生忘死，传承生生不息之坚韧；建设时代父辈鞠躬尽瘁，传承薪火相传之精神；发展时代父辈开拓创新，传承无畏探索之勇气；科技时代父辈穿越时空，传承互为父子之亲情。
在一夜情和强奸之间竟还有一条漫长的容易模糊视野的灰色地带，哇！多么大胆的粉饰！完全的盛气凌人的姿态，多多少少还带着一点身不由己的狂傲以及来自意识形态里的轻蔑。
看这种电影我一般必哭的，但前两个小片段我眼泪花儿还包起的，就演完了。
最喜欢徐峥这组，小品比较成熟了。章子怡镜头表达比较浪漫，从孩子的视角来讲航天也不错。沈腾的就是好笑，笑完不留啥
第一次看法国庭审戏，挺有意思的。女主演得很好。
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