Somewhere in the remote region, the war ends. In the midst of ruined cities and houses in the streets, in rural hamlets, everywhere where people still live, are children who have lost their homes and parents. Abandoned, hungry, and in rags, defenseless and humiliated, they wander through the world. Hunger drives them. Little streams of orphans merge into a river which rushes forward and submerges everything in its path. The children do not know any feeling; they know only the world of their enemies. They fight, steal, struggle for a mouthful of food, and violence is merely a means to get it. A gang led by Cahoun finds a refuge in an abandoned castle and encounters an old composer who has voluntarily retired into solitude from a world of hatred, treason, and crime. How can they find a common ground, how can they become mutual friends? The castle becomes their hiding place but possibly it will also be their first home which they may organize and must defend. But even for this, the price will be very high.
To this simple story, the journalist, writer, poet, scriptwriter, movie director, and film theoretician Béla Balázs applied many years of experience. He and the director Géza Radványi created a work which opened a new postwar chapter in Hungarian film. Surprisingly, this film has not lost any of its impact over the years, especially on a profound philosophical level. That is to say, it is not merely a movie about war; it is not important in what location and in what period of time it takes place. It is a story outside of time about the joyless fate of children who pay dearly for the cruel war games of adults.
At the time it was premiered, the movie was enthusiastically received by the critics. The main roles were taken by streetwise boys of a children's group who created their roles improvisationally in close contact with a few professional actors, and in the children's acting their own fresh experience of war's turmoil appears to be reflected. At the same time, their performance fits admirably into the mosaic of a very complex movie language. Balázs's influence revealed itself, above all, in the introductory sequences: an air raid on an amusement park, seen in a montage of dramatic situations evoking the last spasms of war, where, undoubtedly, we discern the influence of classical Soviet cinematography. Shooting, the boy's escape, the locomotive's wheels, the shadows of soldiers with submachine guns, the sound of a whistle—the images are linked together in abrupt sequences in which varying shots and expressive sharp sounds are emphasized. A perfectly planned screenplay avoided all elements of sentimentality, time-worn stereotypes of wronged children, romanticism and cheap simplification. The authors succeeded in bridging the perilous dramatic abyss of the metamorphosis of a children's community. Their telling of the story (the scene of pillaging, the assault on the castle, etc) independently introduced some neorealist elements which, at that time, were being propagated in Italy by De Sica, Rossellini, and other film artists. The rebukes of contemporary critics, who called attention to "formalism for its own sake" have been forgotten. The masterly art of cameraman Barnabás Hegyi gives vitality to the poetic images. His angle shots of the children, his composition of scenes in the castle interior, are a living document of the times, and underline the atmosphere and the characters of the protagonists. The success of the picture was also enhanced by the musical art of composer Dénes Buday who, in tense situations, inserted the theme of the Marseilaise into the movie's structure, as a motive of community unification, as an expression of friendship and the possibility of understanding.
Valahol Europaban is the first significant postwar Hungarian film. It originated in a relaxed atmosphere, replete with joy and euphoria, and it includes these elements in order to demonstrate the strength of humanism, tolerance, and friendship. It represents a general condemnation of war anywhere in the world, in any form.
本来以为是个讲地震的故事，没想到是在讲低保。确实是真正需要保护的人总是永远得不到保护，虽然演员演技很生硬，人设转换也太过文艺，但初衷是好的，哀痛是血淋淋的。
分几个时间线拍，但是又不明显，所以这两天我看了两遍。灾难后的次生问题更加隐秘可怕，其实站在不同的角度和立场，这都是场悲剧。
2021年个人心目中最好的国产电影。让人想起千禧年后的华语电影叙事，浪漫且感人。剧作绝佳，节奏极好，人物塑造不俗。两个多小时一点也不觉得长。很难想象这是王朔的作品，去掉油腻，这么深情且富有才华。悲哀的是现在已经不被观众所接受，这么好的作品没能被更多人看到，一想到这就没劲了。
挺好看的，但悬疑推理部分也挺弱。五五开，两边都没讨好的感觉。
残缺抱团捱苦年，官家低保吝发放。
这编剧脑洞也蛮大的
震后创伤和社会问题写得又硬又泛，推理是不存在的，结局非常索然无味
阿布大叔甘草叶，双青反转最悲怆。
剧情跌宕起伏，看的时候心里的评分也忽上忽下。前后像是两个故事，但又有些许联系。像是《阿甘正传》加入了一些奇怪的元素，是一次不错的尝试。但这部爱情片却没能引起我的共鸣，或许恋爱经历太少的缘故吧。只能说是“作者电影”了，有很强的作者痕迹在其中，想表达也绝不仅仅是爱情，塞的东西多了，却又怕喧宾夺主，结果有点畏手畏脚的感觉。但是两个主演都是很喜欢的演员，演技值得肯定，但故事看似要逃离传统框架，却又落入俗套，但又俗的有些精致，让人雾里看花。总体观看还行，但可以更好的。
看完还是觉得有点牵强，并且奇异地激起了我的民族自豪感——原来不是每个国家都能做到灾后重建的。 他们的民政局每次看都觉得好苦好苦好苦啊
对了，死神永生。
对医学介绍那么多干嘛，对剧情有什么推进作用?当科普来拍的吗?
一段时代印记背景下的尘封旧事，文学作品，演绎和叙事都没啥问题，但故事没什么意思
題材和卡司都很好，開頭也不錯，但後面有點無聊了。劇情平鋪直述步調慢，沒什麼吸引點。最大亮點是清原果耶
整个就是无语，感觉是强行把两个本子合在一起，给拍了出来。
苦大仇深的无聊和困惑，濑濑敬久正常发挥罢了。
看完还是觉得有点牵强，并且奇异地激起了我的民族自豪感——原来不是每个国家都能做到灾后重建的。 他们的民政局每次看都觉得好苦好苦好苦啊
挺好看的，但悬疑推理部分也挺弱。五五开，两边都没讨好的感觉。
青梅竹马是心锚，是抹不去的痕迹…如此痴情的男主，怕是只在电影中出现
可以8分，这世界确实太多角落需要我们去照亮
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