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.
还不错 简单又不简单 视觉风格有辨识度 当然不管是好是坏 故事有些平但是剧情走向没有办法 人物和人物关系之类的不必追求 题材和空间已经决定了上限 台词和诉求不必追求 本来也就是图一乐
前面悬疑很重，到中间偏后就拉胯了，故事简直就是一条直线那么直。做得比较好的就是用枪动作，团队CQB clear，还有武器也是考量过的，不是渣渣配置
把主角对金子贵过命的心态拍得太突出，超出常人对求生本能的正常反应。
其他都不错，就是剧情太垃，看完毫无波澜，惊悚不惊悚，深度没深度，更是被男主作死行为弄懵逼了
剧情套路，当作爽片的话好像也不是很爽，走深刻最后又草草收尾.
大过年的坐个啊高铁看了一路这个片子，也是服了…
千万不要活成人为财死鸟为食亡，人生区区几十年，懂得取舍才是福。这部电影虽然夸张，但却覆盖了人性，引以为戒啊！
一声叹息，这又是个那种只有了解老美SOF community culture那套玩意，才能理解的小成本情怀片。本片据说剧本请了前绿贝参与，拍摄找了法国前特种兵办的军事电影道具公司做顾问，所以细节上十分硬核和讲究。例如主角设定是绿贝CRF队员，职务医疗军士，MOS 18D，在布拉格堡部分细节极其考究，使用真实的CRF番号和标志，美国陆军特种部队第3大队2营B连4小队ODA3224。甚至主角OCP军装配饰都无比讲究，左右肩臂章准确无误不说，胸前资格章有战斗潜水+MFF，凸显主角CRF身份。其他场面讲究之处就更多了，更别说那套独有的文化梗对照真实案例后，所隐喻老美现役和退役特种兵群体的危机和悲凉，不是人人都能功成身退，出书卖课卖枪刀棍棒野鸡保健品，赚得盆满锅满名利双收。
内部人坑内部人，杀熟，一切为了利益，男主还是很帅的，进入主题慢了点，后面套路了点，美国大兵身体素质都这么牛么，那么重伤打个强行针就能继续飞檐走壁
前半段还不错，很多桥段看起来非常真实，后面回去开始就瞎拍拍了，连逻辑自洽都做不到
哎，yy着如果自己是男主，结尾太仓促，还一直等着金子卖了如何走上人生巅峰，
剧情太慢, 有点拉胯, 故事讲不好, 又没有特效支撑.
好像年纪大了的偶像明星，都得演一部特别苦的影片
军人下岗再就业难题，随时都是可以被抛弃的。
当他掰下一块金子而选择继续留守的时候，到底是贪婪还是忠诚？
纯粹是为了升华寓意而充斥反智情节的小成本片子，立意虽好，可看完给人浪费时间之感。
整部片子不知所云，大概要把导演和编剧的意图讲清楚需要的是一部电视剧，至于人物动机，尤其最后的枪战，男二是自己找死吗？
眼睛冒火⋯👍
#22#17满屏的中国元素外加棒子坠机，我先给导演点个赞。博弈论角度，男主怎么也是自己开车找机器更合理吧…结果到了二次选择机会的时候突然又猛起来了，我的评价是不如T-bag在沙漠里的选择
反映人性的好电影，人总是被贪婪驱动着，却最终死于贪婪。
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