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.
人类向上也好，向下也罢，那些探索都意味着对神域的入侵，即使洞中一无所有。
准太的外祖父瑟雷斯在妻子八千代小姐面前跳Seguiriya（斷續調），舞姿既悲傷又熱情……
仿佛创造着一种近似于「地下一天，地上一年」的特殊感觉，允许看客在这里忘却时间，缓慢地进入其中；探究黑暗之中的秘密，又或是游走在村落里更近距离接触着自然。它考验耐心并常常不会有更多的讯息，但只要完成，就会发现其中无可言喻的奥妙。
话说蠢太真的是个疯批，这种遇见你之后全世界都有了色彩、有了生气的感觉真的好爱啊！
落地大喊“我要成为西班牙人”（西北欸紧 喔勒哇拿鲁！）确实是想到了一些海贼船长 导致本作全篇最重要元素之一“佛朗明哥（Flamenco）舞”我一直记成多佛朗明哥🥰
台词推动剧情，真的够无聊。唯一感触的是：氛围是用来享受的。
【IFFMH】适合沉浸式观影，没在大银幕看还是不打星了
西班牙舞跳得好尬……
爱就是要大声说出来。
来听鸟的，结果捕捉到了超好听的ED，一开口就喜欢上了。
哈哈还行，继续小甜饼，还有好多伏笔没扯清啊喂 1:54...感觉熬夜看并不是很香
超爱这种有一丢丢互相救赎➕相互勉励的故事了👍虽然剧情中规中矩，但是它甜啊！甜就够了！！！
黑暗中的光点永远是摄人心魄的。夜色里众人围观黑白电视，而我坐在漆黑的宿舍里，电脑屏幕中的光俨然也是目所能及唯一的光源，我们都是从洞中向外张望天光的人。
爱情是美丽又悲伤的，蠢太高人永远在一起啊♥(｡￫v￩｡)♥
真会玩，果然人活着就是为了———🙈。（ps.舞蹈真的能画出来就好了
12H00 09/05/2022 à l’UTOPIA BDX
就是跳舞的动画略有点尬，不过脖子下面的黑线终于去掉了，谢天谢地！
人类向上也好，向下也罢，那些探索都意味着对神域的入侵，即使洞中一无所有。
中规中矩！甜度满！
我的高人啊~还是你会 可以感受到你内心对准太炙热的爱快要冲破屏幕了!
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