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."
萨拉热窝，一战，英法德三王过家家，俄国革命，美国总统被色诱威胁……不愧是或然历史下的英格兰科幻爽片罢。还是有许多奇葩设定和独特癖好，拉斯普京的压迫和妖魅感展现很到位，两米高的妖僧跳着哥萨克舞挥刀1v3的场景挺带感。前线暗夜肉搏的一段有末世科幻的味道，穿越火线后却轻易被一个误会害死很有这个系列恶趣味的习惯（编剧跟苏格兰有多大仇？）。悬崖之上和牧羊人的大决战反而黯然失色。片中自我吐槽也有意思，祖先们是一群穷凶极恶的人，掠夺、欺骗、抢劫、杀戮，直到某天他们发现自己成了贵族，但这高尚地位并非出自骑士精神，当时被称为“绅士”宛如被判死刑。最后想说，虽然女仆Polly的狙击很飒，黑人管家的刀术很帅，但还是更希望看到这个系列各种奇葩道具装备以及穿西装打斗的传统。
全片华彩在俄罗斯妖僧的芭蕾武上。另外叛逆期儿子战场上那一段设计的也很有想法，把战争的盲目和荒诞表现的不错。
太难看了，剧情无逻辑，人物没有行为动机。某些镜头的暗示令人不适。珍爱生命，远离烂片
给人整不会了 现在商业片可以这么随便拍了吗
扯上真实历史人物的阴谋论让整个片子显得非常幼稚。
一部爽片、神剧，从观感来说还不错，脑洞大开，很有些恶趣味，比较符合阴谋论，也就是不少人想象中有个神秘组织在背后左右几大国领导人。拉尔夫-费因斯似乎是第一次挑战如此强烈的动作戏，不仅有激烈的打斗、枪战，还有惊险的跳伞、攀岩，这对他来说并不容易。至于历史，在片中不能当真看，这采用的是一种解构历史的方法，与纯粹的恶搞历史还有些区别。
太难看了，期待了一年，怎么会写成这么一个前半段无聊后半段陈词滥调的剧本。反派是谁简直一看cast就能猜到，三段式的剧本在第一个小时的打斗之后就泄气，儿子的战场段落更是毫无意义。男主部分时候笨拙部分时候又身手矫健，男配女配都是工具人。反派杀手除了第一个疯子打斗段落很有新意，女杀手30秒就结束了。一星给最后片尾小枝的measure of a man。
...是有卖腐吗 完全没chemistry
“你替我挡子弹，却不肯跳机？”
马修沃恩江郎才尽，亚伦泰勒约翰逊现在沦落到到处在大片里跑龙套了嘛……
马修一定是觉得自己太帅了，就和当年的拉夫一样，所以要挑战一下支棱起来的反派怪胎。几段打斗简直是美学和戏剧性的完美结合，文艺片主演们的爆米花动作片就是降维打击，反转不套路出人预料惊喜满满，与真实历史的完美结合，007啥的弱爆了。英国人真的太优雅了，太黑色幽默了。小男孩的角色很立。呼应亚瑟王和骑士的内容，才是英国贵族用不消失的精神。雅俗共赏的电影，实在是厉害。
又操蛋又好笑的感觉。这种对真实历史的意淫玩笑还是很对我胃口的，最后同志与元首的会面真是恶趣味到了极致。说到底，金士曼反类型恶搞的底色还在，看了一多半，谁会不觉得这是个老父亲最终放手让儿子去飞的故事，又怎能想到傻儿子死得这么荒诞。
“己所不欲，勿施于人。”
有点无聊，完全没了之前的系列风格，全片告诉我们一个道理很喜欢，不作死就不会死，听人劝吃饱饭，这是成熟的重要标志之一，最起码是活的久的关键因素之一
这个系列你们不想要了可以卖给毕志飞哈，他还可以邀请郭敬明砍一刀
娱乐干嘛上纲上线跟历史较真。。虽然跟别的电影一样全是槽点，但是剧情还挺意外的。
马修沃恩说不拍X战警续作是防止烂尾，结果没过王牌特工这道坎
算是食之无味弃之可惜的典型，不得不承认这在当下看确实有看到一丝与现实重合的感觉，但是整体对历史走向的意淫式解读实在是不太聪明并且异想天开；随时可死的角色倒是没什么问题，与俄方奸细对打时的舞蹈算是唯一能看的动作戏了；最后黑人仆人对白人主角说类似“很高兴原来的您回来了”，主角紧接着就开始大杀四方，所以暴力才是真面目，和平主义只是一时的软弱，这段也算是有些讽刺性了。
惟二亮点：一、男主儿子的结局；二、拉斯普京融合了哥萨克舞的武打动作。非要恶搞历史没人想拦你，但也别厚脸皮地为自己立英模、圣母的丰碑。
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