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."
北野武的浓情时刻，时代潮流中的人事浮沉。前段不代入北野武更入戏，尾段蒙太奇很动人。
中国终于有自己的像点样儿的狙击手的电影了
个人觉得还挺好看的啊，无尿点，又是悬崖之上那种感觉，只是后面徐大永成长的有点太快了，突然就变机灵了
最不北野武的北野武电影，一扫之前电影中的做作和装腔作势，演出了一个有笑有泪的喜剧界师徒故事。果然还是有生活才能动人心，一个讲相声的拍什么黑帮片嘛。师傅深见千三郎的结局让人想起《昭和元禄心中》。铃木保奈美无论居家人妻还是艺伎扮相都那么美，柳乐优弥演得很认真也很做作，第一次get到门胁麦的美，原来是个熟版栗山千明。最后的重回旧梦让人泪目。
观影过程中一直感受得到剧团一人对本职及前辈的深沉热爱，但全片整体始终差口气（剧团其实可以试试找人联合导演）。当然主演们的演技毫无问题，尤其师徒二人的每场对手戏都颇有看点，大泉洋yuya门胁麦铃木保奈美演技多半星。最后，希望能安排北野武老爷子的吐槽副音轨。
催泪，硬催，不哭不是人的那种。还是有很多镜头是老谋子独有的镜头美学。
柳乐优弥真是抓到了北野武的歪嘴抽搐的精髓，大泉洋的演绎也很不错，甚至形象比传主更加立体。
不错的小切入点命题电影，国师出手还是有质量保证的
虽然影片讲述的是抗美援朝中比较小的一场战役，但整部电影所有演员的张力和爆发力都很到位，张译，章宇实力在线，硬生生把我打动哭了
同为抗美援朝题材，与《长津湖》的大场面不同，张导主要着力于小，掐头去尾大约70分钟时间全部展现这场与美军的狙击战，悬念重生高潮迭起，张导整体的节奏把握到位，把几位新演员的表演调教的真实可信，张译首尾现身，章宇演的尤其出彩，几场戏处理的感人肺腑，张艺谋导演以72岁高龄再次证明，他还是中国最优秀的导演之一。
-.-为啥一个子弹射击出膛的镜头要用那么多次呢。。好廉价啊
确实是近些年看过最好的国产战争片了。就那么一个山坡发生的故事，惊心动魄。好几次剧情反套路，看得揪心。最后也真切感受了战争的残酷以及和平的不易。章宇和年轻演员们演的真好！
就非常有意思的主题和成片风格，各种相反的元素碰撞，表达的真情是真真情，温情也是恰到好处。
所有经历都促成他长歌当哭的情绪内核。
张泽没超过3分钟镜头 章居然当主演了 原来是老乡 难怪说长得像一个球友
“他演得那么烂还鼓掌，这样你只会害他。”“由你来告诉观众，什么才是有趣的。”“我是谐星，你这笨蛋。”师匠教你的不是搞笑的技术，而是做一个大写的有底气的艺能人。我永远会被时代浪潮卷走旧时代有才之人的故事而感到酸楚，有能力的人在什么时代都可以变得有能力无非在于守不守初心，要不要变。叱咤长青的人都是不愿意躺平的爱折腾的要出去看看的人，这样人生才有故事。影帝和大卷羊表演满分。门胁麦演得让人看不出是东京贵族里的白富美。佩服日本演员演每一个角色就像角色本身，踢踏舞，TUOYI舞都专业之极。
8/10,春节档最佳，国师近几部片子排片量好像都不咋地，同样是抗美援朝大前提，却以一个狙击班做切入点，以小见大。敌方难得的不降智，也不会主动的打小孩。剧情层层递进一气呵成。章宇真的棒。五班都很棒！小不足是bgm实在是铺的太多了。有时候感觉有点吵=-=结局真是让我有了一次全新的体验，就是你明明情绪上波动不是很大，但是你泪止不住的流。五班！到！！
剧情挺多离谱和夸张的 但是在音乐的渲染下真的很好哭 可是我跟爷爷奶奶一块看的 还不好意思哭出来 所有的眼泪都流在了心里和眼眶子里。。。
提前看的点映，今天上映了来打分，这次张译算是配角，章宇完全hold住了。导演把这场虽小但重要的战争拍的格外扣人心弦。不敢说春节档口碑最好的，但是质量完全过关，冷枪冷炮，热血沸腾。
五班的新人演员可以的。一群陌生的面孔，伴着剧情在紧张的氛围中把我带回到那一段悲壮无畏的战争，新人演员的运用很大胆也比较成功，是一个简单的故事，也是成功的叙事，大师真稳！希望排片时间可以再合理些。
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