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."
要说法有两个官方渠道：1选教会，对被告有利。2选王庭荣耀决斗，胜方代表真相，败方就是诬告还要被脱光烧死，800年前的古人就是这么愚昧这么笃信上帝必然保佑说真话的……博学精明的女主居然不了解当时的风俗，还声称不能让上帝决定自己和孩子的生死……女主想法太现代了，要是把女主自述挪到第一段，我会猜她女扮男装上演《威尼斯商人》智斗法庭，或者变身《杀死伊芙》的杀手……总之掌握自己的命运不靠上帝不靠男人……然而她只是怼怼怼。
是女性都会懂的。
这阵容，演技无需讨论；第一节前半部分太潦草，多视角叙事并不少见，但是这部重播的地方太多了点，尤其第二节跟第三节，大段毫无必要的重复，导致片长过长；勒格里长得实在太丑了，配不上那些赞美，不如跟大本换下角色；
本来以为分成3个章节，能给我们3个主观视角，没想到都是一样的，很多涉及多人场景的镜头都是重复的。。还以为至少能做出The Affair的感觉。。。
雷导这是不是照着网上的恶臭评论逐条拍出来的啊，网络果然带来了无数创作以抗争的动力。这个片子展示了在一个无知甚至谬论的世界中，人是没有基本尊严的，只有所谓的面子和拿面子维持的秩序。别看事情是14世纪的事，回望眼下，要扫除的谬论还是很多啊。我看着看着觉得这个片子再适合眼下中国不过了难道雷导来我们这里调研过？噢不，这个世界都是这个样子过去一段时间可能我们只是活在了幻想里。老美这类商业片越来越成熟了，拥抱中没有幸福，欢呼中没有喜悦，激昂中没有荣耀，当失败一方被吊起，而人潮转而向“上帝”认定的一方送上认可时，就像鲁迅说的，有的只是“吃人”二字。
雷老把司机拍的让人想踹，幸好我是从婚姻故事和星战来的，唯独司机的蜜汁魅力很是认可，虽然角色招人恨。
我Jo演的也太赞了！！就是剧情有些拖沓，在电影院没法倍速播放好着急！
一个男人粗鲁野蛮，另一个男人自我催眠
罕见的杰作。如此残酷的案件，今人也如身受，有痛。拍科幻的他居然第1次把历史表现得这么好，有以史为鉴的穿透性。《罗生门》的多舌视角，让我偶闪布列松式的真实感。身临其境，发人深省。
六百多年前女主敢做的事，现代人不一定人人敢为；她婆婆与闺蜜的观念，六百多年后仍随处可见。女性觉醒、男女平等，任重道远。
有人说本片像罗生门，恰恰相反，本片的三名名叙述者相信自己的叙述并无夸大成分，而两位骑士的这种相信却正是最令人窒息的无意识歧视。
无法被证实的真相，每个人都是只看到自己选择看到的那一面，三个视角既相似又截然不同，细枝末节的处理非常棒。
要拍不同视角就加大对比，不痛不痒地拍三遍更像省钱吧，细节抓的不好，立意也暧昧不清的，看在服化道的面子上及格分但是真的不值得1.0倍速😥
六百多年过去，女性的处境有变好一些吗？并没有。而世界不会变好，才更应该在每一个具体的历史情境中，为了自己而坚强地抗争。
難看，看了個寂默，女權可以用別的方式呈現，用睡好友老婆的方式，真的太爛。
一个男人的荣耀成了女人的窒息。三个视角剖析的完整故事，不同的镜头细节分化私心的种种表象。一句“若以情欲之眼看待女性，那么在心中就已犯下淫欲之罪”足以令人无可反驳
虽然三方讲的故事大体相同，但某些细节和隐藏的事实让传达给人的感觉完全不一样
《末路狂花》是超前，这部是当下。最后的决斗拍得多好啊，没有胜利，唯有叹息。这个世界还是需要雷德利·斯科特。
男一很令人讨厌，男二相比稍好一点，女主很强大
雷老爷子最令人倾佩的是，他明明很懂好莱坞那一套和市场规则，完全可以拍出《火星救援》这类高票房、大众喜欢评论也尚可的片子，但他依旧在拍《最后的决斗》这种票房注定一般，且只能在小范围内受到高度赞赏的作品。他都这个年纪的人了啊，害……虽然这部片有小瑕疵（比如在老司机视角那段里，观众已经知道了他的罪行导致悬念性和剧情张力在最后一小时中有所减弱），但依旧值得五星。
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