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.
少年时代啊，网飞钱够的，怎么没有用上半梦半醒人生那样的手绘立体的作画设计，那样感觉应该好些
好看也轻松的很 但是从某种程度上来说 充满了辛辣的讽刺
那么恐怕绝大多数的历史学家都会大跌眼镜
林克莱特的歌品👍🏻画风特别有趣，尤其前中段像看连环画一样的60年代生活图景以及流行文化赏析。一代人的回忆和童年就像玻璃窗外窥见月球的第一眼，每个人都短暂地共同见证并坚信自己身处其中
现在的藏区也这么危险吗？我以为被狼追，屋子漏雨这些情况都不会出现了呢，如果还是这样的话，希望可以发起募捐，我可以尽我所能帮助一些...
+，除缺少核心意义外，几乎用老套的报菜名流水账达到了月球漫步时父亲所说的“it looks super casual”的目的。
略琐碎…美梦成真的方法就是在极度疲倦的时候观看一个喜欢的电视节目，然后努力让脑电波和节目信号同频。
属于林克莱特私人的另一版《少年时代》，前半段流行文化跑马灯以及一系列童趣元素不乏怀旧范。亦或也可以与2019年那三部电影——《好莱坞往事》《爱尔兰人》以及《极速车王》一起组成美国1960s风情画。
为什么到最后韩老师一辈子也结束了呢，我多希望他跟女主能安静的享受一下晚年生活，操劳了一辈子啊
属于那种拍的还行，但用宝贵的空闲时间看会后悔的类型
60年代火箭城美国少年们的日常。海滩、太空乐园、电视节目，太空梦。结合阿姆斯特朗登月。
导演以自己的童年时代为背景，写出了过去的美好，这种碎碎念还挺让人受用的（2022.05.15 星期日 沐陂）
对美国中产童年和登月没有共同记忆，但是关于童年的奇妙，温暖，充满幻想的体验，其实是共通的，电影里所有的点，在我的个人回忆里，都能找到对应😭😭谁还还么有儿时玩伴，没看过露天电影，没玩过危险游戏，没守在电视机前见证历史时刻过吗
这部片段是在订阅号上面刷到的，被吸引到了，于是特意充了年会员去看的。影片简单剧情不拖沓，节奏很好。导演很会放大细节，从头至尾不落一秒的片子，很值得一看，近几年难得的好电影，十分全给！
谁说美国人不爱国，阿波罗登月足以让美一直骄傲下去
算是伪动画吧。接了太空的壳，回顾了童年时光。说有共鸣暴露年龄了。
装载了导演童年的个人追忆与集体回忆。60年代与刚过去的世纪末并无差多少。★★★☆/7.4
又有哪个向往星辰的小男孩不整日幻想着某天被神秘组织带走并得知自己是那个被选中的孩子，仅仅是因为登月舱尺寸设计小了这一荒唐的缘由，反正我曾也脑补过这样一出戏，这个来自林克莱特童年的脑洞，放在全片范围里都算最有趣的设定，半梦半醒如痴如醉的时代巡礼看来共情力并没有因地域文化差异而受严重影响
他还是没从他的少年时代里走出来，也没有独属于这种动画形式的变奏，它只是一层普通的怀旧滤镜罢了
人物挺丰满的，就算换个视角都能变成不同的故事，特别是僧格，我对他挺印象深刻的！
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