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.
想起早些年看的书“人的情谊，再久长，数年、数十年，总归开初那段最是金不换。”读到这里，深以为然。 我总是不大懂政治，问你你就和我讲，女朋友知道这些干啥，女朋友就是被我宠的。其实……我也不大懂你，只是政治和你，你都不愿再和我讲
薛叔依旧演技在线，对比第一次看叔的《薄荷糖》时，叔已经老了不少了，心痛(╯︵╰,)
【千影计划251】离《南山的部长》还是差一截，远没有前者来的霸气和一气呵成
让人停留在阴影中的不是手段是否阴暗，而是心中是否保留着一份光明。
真的可以，用微信小程序看的低清版本，而且字幕还贼垃圾。。机翻受不了。
很受启发，同为理想主义者的不同道路选择，慷慨悲歌，慨叹唏嘘，李善均才应该是男主，二位戏真是不错
玩弄人心的徐昌大，终究被人把鸡放在了自己的鸡窝里。对徐昌大作用的神化，令想象中《南山的部长们》的姊妹篇，竟然变成了《模仿游戏》。
不如《南山的部长》。整部电影剧情单一冗长。
而棒国政坛，再光明的愿景也与黑幕相伴，也是积重难返的畸形。
根據被譽為「亞洲的曼德拉」的韓國總統金大中與影子謀士嚴昌祿的事跡改編.
阴谋与阳谋的博弈 扶龙之臣总会成为帝王的污点 我看到的是飞鸟尽 良弓藏
这字幕是机翻吧，看得云里雾里，但也要给薛景求打call
奈何我想多了 哎......
看完我也想不明白为了绝对正义还是为了成功不顾一切哪个是对的，我也不明白系红绳和送鸡蛋哪个更有效。
虽是杜撰，但不难看出“杜撰”只是一个挡箭牌，与真实历史有很大关联。如果说《南站的部长们》是集多重矛盾于一起，那么这部电影是散多重矛盾于一滩，虽然会感觉矛盾冲突推的不够，但细想这种暗流涌动本也是政治斗争的一部分。
既要能让有良知的人上位，也要允许台面下的阴影存在。但无法反过来，阴影就是见光死，然而阴影未必无良知。
韩国的政治剧真的绝了，什么都可以挖掘，什么都可以拍。选举中的明争暗斗，选票的争夺其实是熟捻人性后的导向策略，当然有时需要凭空造事，有时需要应变交易。
开始说养鸡的那个男演员以后会起飞吧，都很眼熟他了，犯罪都市里是个龙套，极限职业里演了个主要角色，还演过娑婆诃
想要光明磊落，以纯粹正义之路登上权力的顶峰，是不现实的。实际一点就是看谁够狠。
化妆师能不能稍微认真点 金云范简直20年没变化。。。
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