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.
三个小时的电影十足漫长，随时来的歌舞声也不非常下头，也没什么高超手法，部分情节有点过于小学生，虽然…但是…友邻评论的人们共情的共的都是电影之外的东西特别贴切。
题材加两星，叙事一般般，想表达的东西很多，由于要加入反转前边铺垫显得过长，很多细节通过音乐一笔带过，整个时长拉的太多，整体来说这个剧本表达的不够简洁。
看得后背发凉，一个不容忽视、快速成长的国家。
这真的是处女作吗？
印度真的好喜欢埋深情节啊，套中套的写法真的是，还是很有效的。不过因为拍得太重演得太重了，其实后面或多或少也猜到了些，不过按一个商业剧情片去看的话，还是比较有时代意义，尤其是对于现在的中国来说
一部看了之后让我在大夏天里不开空调和风扇却能起鸡皮疙瘩的电影……国家花重金搞教育，是想让我们的居住地变得更干净更美好，为什么那么多人热衷搞脏它？私欲真的凌驾一切吗？净土究竟在哪里？怎样才能找到？或许在于多数人有勇气不是只抱怨，而是用行动去实践正义、抗议不公吧。太喜欢影片讲故事的方式了，几连反转，将真相抽丝剥茧，里面的每一个重要角色都有私与公的暗与光之面，尽管遵从的是种因得果的朴素法理逻辑，但善恶背后的复杂性一览无余，更兼着耐人寻味
PS.印度社会矛盾真的到了这种程度了么？如果在如此大的矛盾环境下，这样的电影能拍出来并上映，那印度政府的包容性真的值得点赞。
这真的是处女作吗？
反转来得出人意料，却又在情理之中，期待下部
2小时30分，再次反转，之后应该没有反转了吧，律师果然是男主。
最后二十分钟腹泻般的角色关系介绍毁了一切。
民众的声音太好引导了
电影时长真可以，本片最厉害的主人公电影演一多半了才出场。高分印度电影近年来的套路就是:通过应接不暇的神反转，埋伏足够多的隐喻，进而拔高电影的整体立意。最后被轰炸了几个小时脑细胞的观影者不得不感叹:看着虽然累但电影还是牛叉的。PS:本片适合放暑假的师生细品。😅😅😅
我们有改变电影的郭嘉，
民众的声音太好引导了
"媒体的存在是为了报道真相 还是媒体所报道的一切都是真相？"
的确精彩，中国的确拍不出这样的电影，的确也是因为题材加一星，不解决问题而是解决提出问题的人，哪都一样啊🐶
剧情剧情 这就是我想要的剧情，看的我热血沸腾。
他们离过婚，出过轨，
热评第一有点意思哈哈哈哈。可是哦问题大家都知道又有几人愿意又有能力改变呢？大概最终是视而不见见怪不怪了吧。
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