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.
薛导拍爱情温情片还是有一手，切入点很有意思，前半段插科打诨后半段泪奔，节奏处理的不错，个人还挺喜欢的
【米米·凯夫】导演处女作 ～
看了之后，更加不想社交date了，其实男变态线因为看过类似的，心里有一定的承受能力了，就是他老婆是被变态折磨这样的，还要帮他，这个就更恶心了。。。。
北京遇上西雅图大概已经用光了导演所有的才华
别相信任何约会软件。
菜市场初次相遇的铺垫很好，毕竟男主看见女主的美，看看见新鲜蔬菜别无二异。
演技有点糟糕 丝毫无法从这些受害者的眼神里感受到绝望和害怕
蠢得要死的奇情片，本以为铺垫了这么多两人感情戏会有点有意思的收尾，没想到竟然还是《逃出绝命镇》，你说这两个人这么般配不让女主彻底爱上吃肉然后离不开男主说不过去啊，眼睛变绿色特效都给了明显意思觉醒了啊！最后老婆又来送人头，太蠢了这片子！
猎奇片，没有智商缺失的硬伤，也没有逃离绝命镇这样的剧情惊喜。
6.0 《get out》女性版，从黑人移植到女性，还是挺契合的，但视觉体验，调度弱了前者不少
塞包包一点也不包子了🥺女生们真的slay 啊
“我只是觉得相信真爱的人好蠢！”Je sais pas，我刚好就属于Noa这种人，可惜刚说完这话没多久她就被打脸了！
谁说这种简单的爽烂片看着不爽了？没抱任何期待的打开但竟然意外的舒服，就，有时候别看太牛逼太复杂太艺术的电影了，看点这种简简单单新鲜刺激俗套的电影也蛮放松的，真的观感很舒服，我觉得很好的片子啊6分有点低了我说实话。。更何况男女主颜值都那么高，尤其女主，简直是梦中情人白月光初恋的感觉，心动死了。很血腥恶心变态一个故事但是却拍的特别绅士美好高雅，也是很绝。最后再感叹一下女主太美了太美了太美了为了她我都想看normal people了。
人间烟火，百姓家常，生活质感，质朴真实。多线叙事，流畅连贯，衔接自然。在好好讲故事，有头有尾(没有乱剪乱切镜头)
磨磨唧唧……海报设计得这么吸引人，倒是放出来啊
这样的happy ending 多好！ 这部片又名《从女性角色肤色人设看迪士尼的政治正确》😛
重口味真吃 实在有点恶心了 毫无逻辑
不够吓人呐！最后一段那啥被那啥之后，不是应该喷血暴毙嘛。
刚刚看完，超级超级感动的电影，每个人都演的很好，强推，电影院里大家一起又哭又笑的，哈哈哈哈哈哈
等奇异的晨光一旦升起，
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