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.
失败的情感，叛逆期的女儿，需要人照顾的老妈。中年人的生活一地鸡毛。
看完不知道说什么。故事本身挺无趣的。演员演技都在线。甩着迪克跳舞是意外惊喜。好在最后是个HE。又是一部关于和解的电影。
被打得头破血流仍然疯狂蹦迪欢度新年。
戳中笑穴的电影 “爸爸 前面太黑 我什么都看不见” 还有那句 “说他喝醉了 说你当时揍了他一拳”给对方和自己都留一点体面
20220521生肉。两星这个分打下去我蛮心疼演员。本子和导演都不够用。电影表达一种感触和情绪的危险就是会显得比较无聊，能不能戳到观众，主要看观众自身，如果你没有很强的代入手段。我以为是去看北村的成长，北村的手指很漂亮，正逐渐获得特写；而船戏可以说是对本片的一部分期待，但却令人失望，要拍就大胆点，要不就带过，又不是拍美食，用top view还欠真实，这里连北村泪都不感人了……着实可惜。待熟肉出，我会再看一遍比较下。20220525熟肉。还是剧本的问题，北村的妆和演技都pass，台词都是附和的那种话，难道是不想用narrator才这么写的吗？剧情在戏中戏和女主对戏中戏的评价里就讲完了......
我心何处是归处？就像男主失去了爱人，女儿离开了自己，他仿佛没有了情感寄托，只能一直流浪。他也不知道自己的问题在哪里？我也不知道。
剧情三星，颜值和演技四星。“卓定深沉莫测量；心猿意马罢颠狂”
不过是想要个安稳的生活，怎么那么难
同志的中年危机。
导演比男主年纪还小，怎么可能拍得好这个主题啊？对男人和生活的理解都还很肤浅。拍摄做爱的体位很假，床戏都很尴尬，没有人类高潮之后会是那幅表情的。
她们爱上你的敏感与纤细，她们留给你支离破碎。
下三滥的电影路数，崔志佳就不适合拍电影，当年爱笑的辉煌不再
流浪的心配孤独的人……
找的几个点都挺好的。。三条线叙事也不乱，人物关系挺有意思的。。
现实却又反差萌（男女之间互换了位置（此处无拳））我们黑菜已经演船戏啦，印象里还是那个可爱的会长…….（船戏毫无美感甚至有些出戏）前半段很好，反转后拉胯…感觉在看别人的人生，很难代入…虽然平时总会幻想别人的人生是什么样的，但那终究是人家的，并不能共情…所以豆瓣什么时候能出半星（每年一问）
观感很差，剧本台词都没写好，感觉很塌，又仿佛在说教
前三分之一让我对这部电影抱有多大的兴趣，后三分之二就有多拉。
不是单纯的搞笑，是爱情篇，儿子在雨中爆哭，很感人
编剧水平有限，基本上就是跟着男主到处游荡，然而遇到的一切都是萍水相逢，浮于表面。反而是男主和女儿、妈妈的支线比较动人。不过有颜有肉体，总体还是挺喜欢的。
柳哥这两年惨透了，没什么好戏，眼看着角色也定型了
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