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.
好喜欢皮皮鲁鲁西西家的装修啊，色彩好丰富好和谐
总体感觉有点低龄幼稚，有些地方看得尬以及速度慢甚至想快进
算是合格还原吧，从80年代到如今，分数论还是大面积存在，推荐教委看
给孩子的童话故事。旁边的小女孩一直提醒观众，注意学校标语的细节。
读郑渊洁是遥远的往事，我的预期存在偏差，影片有关抗争，但并无过激之处。显而易见的缺点是特效不够逼真，小演员们时有露拙的发挥，以及结尾高潮戏较为刻意。但这些落到一部诚挚的、真正的儿童片上，就会像其他评论者说的——为影片添上些古典趣味。影片整体品质尚佳，配乐出乎意料很好，还有国产少儿版“天才枪手”段落！如今的我得以跳出被刻画者的身份，一身轻松地观看它，也观察其他亲子观众，感受心底既熟悉又陌生的暗流。最后，期待《魔方大厦》。
挺好看的，道具布景非常用心，和我们同场看的有个小妹妹，看到结尾处感动得哭了起来，一颗纯真的心❤️
就记得看过这个故事，但是啥剧情都不记得了。。。
除了后面火灾的改编有点夸张以外，真的是满分！还原童年幻想，期待魔方大厦
莫名土味，又莫名想给出四星。当下的大陆，可以找到制作更好的儿童电影，但却找不到三观如此正的儿童电影，寓教于乐，主题性强，适合孩子们，郑渊洁赛高。
还不错，有点回到90年代初。小演员挺出彩的
我看到最能与现实社会关联的是TZ间串联的腹黑梗。本人虽然不是郑渊洁的原著粉，但结尾彩蛋还是颇有些打破次元壁的感觉。
在不知不觉间，我已经完全从孩子蜕变成了家长。曾经以为我能理解他们，现在才发现自己和曾经讨厌的家长没什么两样。如大逃杀里讲的一样，大人和孩子是对立的，理解是暂时的，战争是永远的。
现在看有一些古早了，改编的部分也不如原著。
大火中小人为了救同伴打算牺牲自己这个片段，把六七岁的小孩子感动得哭了，为了不影响别人，默默地趴到我怀里抽泣，灯光亮起还很不好意思，怕我笑她。这就是所有小孩小时候的幻想，跟小小的人做朋友，那么天真，那么单纯，适合小朋友的电影。
孩子眼里的世界和成年人眼里的世界 是不一样的
保持童真很重要，这部片其实大人带着孩子看比较好，时间定在1985年，片中保留了复古元素，也有当前时尚漂亮的校服，当年确实都特别看重学习成绩，忽视孩子们的兴趣爱好，片中传递的价值观很明确，就是应试教育和素质教育的对立统一，老师和学生的关系，家长和孩子的关系都有很明显的印证，所以这部看似童话故事的儿童片他还是适合家长老师孩子一起看看的，但是我们当年教育的缺陷，执行好双减政策，都有一定的启发，保持童真的心很重要，勇于去探索未知世界。
童年回忆啊 算是不错的改编了 皮皮鲁戏份再多点就好了
作为儿童电影，表现已经很不错了。
强烈推荐大人带孩子一起看。郑渊洁当年可是一个人撑起一本月刊的神人。
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