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.
两个男人好友的中年危机 套在自己演自己的包装里
不过就像电影里说的那样，摆烂可能都不是最悲哀的，不停的尝试还没有效果，只能让观众更怀念他以前的经典角色。
自己致敬自己可还了得，凯奇你以后要争气啊！
3.5吧，还挺好看的～ Pedro太可爱了，想捏他的腮帮子……
是对自己的致敬，也是向外界的表达。还完债，尼古拉斯·凯奇又重回巅峰。
Nick fucking……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………whoa cage ~
巧妙地安排了戏中戏，差点变成又一个烂片，希望凯奇未来能有更好的戏接
大概有那么三五秒钟是真诚的，剩下的时间都湮没在莫名其妙之中。
本来嘛，这是个挺烂的故事，可凯奇饰演自己，在电影里又是吐槽又是致敬，又是自黑又是自恋，化腐朽为神奇，融合出了挺好玩的效果。
影片中规中矩，但是也能看出尼古拉斯凯奇真得尽力了，是有诚意的！一管自我安慰剂，一锅对影迷情怀的鸡汤！
你最喜欢的电影是什么：
I love Nick fucking Cage!
每次宣传都说凯奇翻身了，然后每次看完都被骗了
自己出演自己，和年轻的自己对话，自我审视和嘲讽，叔的艰辛回春路
中年危机电影，尼古拉斯凯奇：虽然过气了 但是我会重回巅峰的
对我来说凯奇的滤镜不如Barney啊哈哈哈哈哈
又名我对好莱坞又爱又恨，一方面要做角色驱动，给成人看的电影布拉布拉，结果完了发现还是标准的好莱坞式电影，这才是本片最大的笑点。。。
戏谑 影迷 爆米花 这种电影演的再烂 口碑也不至于差了吧 哈哈
戏里戏外还是一样浮夸。同样“演自己”，还是之前的尚格云顿更诚恳一些。
恭喜凯奇叔还完债可以拍自己想拍的电影了！拿自己开涮真是太拉好感了，不管真假，至少电影里立出的热爱电影的人设太可爱了。
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