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.
美丽的GIF电影。没有任何冲突的，矛盾只需要摆出来。总有几个下午用来看没必要看的电影👀
Is there any chance... any chance I could fix it all, love u again😔
不敢相信现在还有人拍这种“茶花女”式的电影
为啥男主就一眼万年了，无论怎样都能原谅女主？女主放荡自由不羁挣扎，她对自我救赎的关键一步竟然是“信上帝”，好吧
确实我们每一天都在见证历史 已经开始期待2022版本了 只是希望这版里它可以加上asian hate
有的人用自己的灵魂换取从沙子里淘来的金子 但有些人却将灵魂看的比一切都宝贵 唯有爱可以拯救一切 可以看到1英里比20英里走的更艰难 人生短促 爱你所爱 爱胜过一切艰难和阻隔 当我们都离去的时候 可以肯定的是 所有眼睛能看得到的 没有一样能带的走 但却唯有灵魂和爱常在…… 勾起了退休后到乡村务农的冲动……😂
依然諷刺的文化觀察，2021年世界依然糟糕，希望不要有下集了。
I will send out an army to find you in the middle of the darkest night. 两人的顺服和忍耐是值得的，上帝让两人各自成长，将他们预备成最好的模样，建立坚不可摧的爱。
在祂没有难成的事
经历过黑暗世界的人，见过真正的救赎与自我拯救，看到这部片子内心太震撼了~
因为觉得不真实。爱确实是信仰，但有信仰之人我没见过。
总体见怪不怪。FAUKUS那里还是笑了一下哈哈。然后想重看一下2021去死，发现标记已经看过，却毫无印象了
没有什么事是不可能的
人的堕落都是有其根源，女主就是从小被伤害，这些例子都是真实发生的，也在很多黑暗的角落在发生的，只是活在光明的人看不见罢了。
除了无语以外，无话可说，什么垃圾电影，21世纪了
男主应该是ENFJ无疑了🫠
让我们承认吧，荒谬已是我们生活之常态。nobody even cares，多么可悲的时代。
谁可以这样爱我？这样完全、毫无保留……
片面翻译的很有意思，陈述句仿佛翻译成了疑问句，那答案是什么，宗教信仰者看到的是上帝，浪漫主义者看到的是爱情，现实主义者看到的是真实的不堪承受生命之重，爱是什么，爱是不带目的不计回报的救赎，可是爱情真的只存在于童话故事和宗教信仰之中吗，谁可以这样爱我，翻译更多了一层现实主义意味。
为啥不多看的爱情片，故事剧情平稳的推进。女主和男主分开又重逢的戏份感人
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