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.
Pine简直成好莱坞范冰冰了，一到商业大片就剃得麻溜干净一表人才的（Wonder Woman， Jack Ryan？），换成文艺片就来蓄须明志之类的（Hell or high water?）。虽然本片不算商业大片，但是好歹是派派自家出品, 怎么也要争一争演技派的脸面。
短小的故事，巧妙的安排，有点意思。只不过开2.5倍速依然觉得拖沓。
宝刀在哪？看名字以为是惊悚悬疑片就大大的错了
餐厅外景真好看 太美了！
剧情有点勉强，在女主不发觉的情况下要挟男主，这只有理论上的成功率，完全没有必要。
看电影前就大概猜到了剧情，观影中从开始就知道了结尾。爱情的剧情永远都是分分合合，这部影片没给出什么惊喜。唯一值得打星的是恰逢其时赶在31号上映，给情侣们一个足够有仪式感的跨年吧。
love makes the choice
三星半 名字有点misleading 实则是披着谍战外衣的爱情片
其实本来没什么事的，这不是CIA要男主出卖线人，线人变成了极端分子，害死127航班的所有人。
感觉应该是一个挺感人的故事，但完全没有代入感，音效控制的不错，大特写镜头可以看出男主细腻的毛孔，皮肤比我好多了……
在绝美的酒店里，在灿烂的夕阳下，在男主灰色的眼神中，一个爱情故事以悲剧终结。
梅兹拍剧其实还行，这部捣腾得有些像电视电影了……
要不是为了看派派，我绝对不可能翻到它。
节奏太慢了，本以为是一部谍战片，最终却发现是一部爱情片
还有这个女的，实在不适合演个spy类型的角色。一直苦情脸。
为什么取这种名字害我浪费近俩小时？
我天，间谍都中年危机了。其实就是一个监控器能解决的问题…真的是老龄化了，希望年轻一辈的我们都能佛系一些。可能只能是个希望吧，只为更注重“主观”的“自我表达”吧。
说不上好看也不难看的一般水平，开始以为是谍战片的爱情故事，和缓但是不慢，就是有点电视感。
节奏有点混乱，而且外国名字一个两个往外蹦我真记不住谁是谁。。。。
比上周派恩那个承包商强多了，技法不错，氛围压的好，船戏那我就想起来老斯的慕尼黑。整个故事其实就是指挥大厅装一个监控就能解决的事...
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