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.
在上海疫情发生的现在看，这样一部讲述2020年武汉疫情的故事，还挺有感触。在大难之下，人与人之间真挚的友情。你才能看清谁是你真正的朋友。有些人萍水相逢，你甚至都不知道他叫什么名字，却给你最大的帮助和温暖。这不才是这个社会运作的原动力吗？
两年过去了，抗疫的影视作品也很多了，这个就是豪不出彩。然后，电影里的人，防疫做得——太！差！啦！
以前一直觉得贾玲是个美女，没想到这个发型这么出效果。
真的不行，除了黄渤其他人都撑不起分给自己的设定巨复杂展现时间特别短以至于只能念稿子的角色
等解封的一天，你向我保证我们会在鹦鹉洲大桥上相见；
这是一种好残忍的习惯，我觉得不应该这样，从记录角度，会觉得这个电影还挺好的。
电影本身真就一般，唯一让我动容的老戏骨那条线。实际情况多糟糕确实都知道，但是你又从糟糕之中领悟到什么呢？我只想说，一定要珍惜眼前人！
开场哭到散场，但主要还是联想到了实际发生的事情
所有的恐惧都会烟消云散。”
刻意煽情 没有逻辑 完全出戏 坐如针毡 无语
徐帆咋演完《唐山大地震》说啥都是一股子唐山味……。
就是抗疫温情片。没敢在过年的时候看，结果竟然遇上第二次被迫停业，于是顺便看看鸡血一下。内容稳稳的，也基本在预料之中。主题和贾玲黄渤可加分～
可惜了这个阵容，很俗套的电影，强行制造泪点，没有很感动。
剧本问题，全是符号化的角色，结构也很成问题，太碎了。
骗钱！浪费时间！差到几度想愤然离席，真的太尴尬了、太脸谱、太稀碎了！没有中心思想，至少也要有点起承转合吧，2022年第一场电影竟然看的是这个什么都不是的玩意儿，不会拍可以不拍，这个导演叫什么，十年之内不会再看她拍的任何玩意儿。
看的方言版，武汉话真好听～无论在大润发杀几年鱼，普通人在时代洪流中的无私与温情也最能打动我，老年组让我哭惨了，医生奶奶穿手术服那段真飒！
确实这段抗疫过往应该歌颂和纪念，但不该以这种极不严肃的方式去纪念，而且大家不是尬就是用力过猛，各种违和，几个戏骨完全没有发挥出平时的水平，还有电影里的强行煽情让人感觉真心差！
“当我们穿过寒冬拥抱爱的时候，
比较小众的视角，很朴实，确实在疫情面前，除了抗疫英雄，还有很多老百姓。愿疫情早日度过。
被迫静止的城市里，每一个人都那么的不容易…
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