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.
剧本调皮，尼古拉斯凯奇的铁杆粉都在期待这么一部电影吧
整部电影有一种凯奇很努力希望观众嗨起来，但是，我始终没办法嗨起来的观感体验。
7/10。看的上一部凯奇作品正好是《我心狂野》，落魄演员凯奇和当年的巨星凯奇对话，无比怀念却依然要故作诙谐给粉丝和观众强调that's my job，果然喜剧的内核都是悲剧。
满满的情怀。如果你也曾见证了cage的辉煌，曾经被变脸、勇闯夺命岛、空中监狱等等佳作打动过，曾经被后来的烂片之王恶心过，一定会喜欢这个片。cage扮演已经过气、落寞的自己，在意外的危机中找回勇气和家庭的温暖，重温自己的昔日荣光，仿佛我们的青春在眼前回放。
还挺有趣，戏里戏外半真半假的凯奇，最大的趣点就是凯奇作为真实的自我去扮演另一个虚假的他，电影里里外外都是凯奇粉丝向的。不要抱有期待凯奇咸鱼翻身拍了一部什么惊艳四方的大经典，对于现在的凯奇来说很难，因为大制作很难找上门，只有独立风格的电影还可以尝试，所以完全没必要总期待凯奇什么时候可以翻身，他其实已经翻身了。这部电影是有其可看之处的。趣味性、娱乐性，以凯奇作为中心而打造一个关于演员自白类型的娱乐片，尚可。
还有什么能比演自己更孤注一掷拯救职业生涯的办法呢？总之凯奇是做了，谈不上做得多么出色，但也确实需要一定勇气，拿以往辉煌作品开涮，自黑成为习惯的台词在告诉我们，他真的想重新开始。前段非常有趣，中间开始俗套，片尾大战糊弄了事，导演对不起凯奇。至于结尾破墙后的段落，我相信那是凯奇的真情实感，毕竟从孩提时代一路看过来他的作品，好的坏的，也是在其中注入了自己的感情，我懂。
自己演自己演自己…俗套的故事，因为是凯奇吐槽自己和致敬自己，而且恰到好处，就变得有趣很多，我很喜欢这个点子，其实我也不介意其他过气大明星借着类似的影片回顾自己的演绎生涯，比几分钟看电影那种要好吧
nick fucking cage's massive journey
佩德羅帕斯卡是吃可愛長大的嗎？怎麼這麼可愛啊！
没预告片搞笑，可能不是凯奇粉丝，细节get不到。抛开设定，就是部三流特工搞笑片。当然当作stoner comedy看也是个新思路。
把CIA线砍掉，就演狂热粉丝和过气偶像叙旧喝酒，再把凯奇为了还债接过的烂片吐槽一顿就很好看了。
低于预期
后面好严肃来着，为什么不能把乐子贯穿全片。
还挺有趣，戏里戏外半真半假的凯奇，最大的趣点就是凯奇作为真实的自我去扮演另一个虚假的他，电影里里外外都是凯奇粉丝向的。不要抱有期待凯奇咸鱼翻身拍了一部什么惊艳四方的大经典，对于现在的凯奇来说很难，因为大制作很难找上门，只有独立风格的电影还可以尝试，所以完全没必要总期待凯奇什么时候可以翻身，他其实已经翻身了。这部电影是有其可看之处的。趣味性、娱乐性，以凯奇作为中心而打造一个关于演员自白类型的娱乐片，尚可。
整部电影的卖点都在Cage的表演上，剧情就弱很多，但是不妨碍好看。
绝对值得四星的好电影，nicolas cage回春之作，我觉得里面的兄弟情最感人，私心觉得比杨紫琼那部爆作更好看，剧本反套路的地方很多，全程无尿点，力荐！
有戏中戏的感觉，非常好笑有点心酸，需要对凯奇大叔的作品有起码的了解，熟悉到场景、台词更好。总体而言是一部爆米花片，但情怀很足，各类致敬和内涵也很用心，另外，我也是真的很喜欢鞋拔子脸的😁
以前美式英雄片风靡国内的时候凯奇是男性沙文主义的代表人物 （身边认识很多中年男的喜欢）现在都知道解构了 只能说时代确实有进步那么一点点 老凯奇演老凯奇自己 老凯奇热吻小凯奇 这已经够好笑了 演凯奇女儿的居然是Lily Sheen 这就更好笑了 怎么说呢 男的 闭上你的嘴 做个谐星 永远是最好的选择👌
片子真的很一般，老套又匠气，但曾经奥斯卡影帝（近十年的烂片王）自己演自己的这种幽默和勇气还是挺难得的。希望烂片奥斯卡影帝可以踏上人生第二春。
凯奇往事，夺命岛里神经毒气那个绿色的珠子我也印象深刻，还记得打得解药是颠茄碱，心脏推注，还是和老爹一起在电影院看的呢
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