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.
阴冷破败的小镇氛围塑造的很好，可惜最后有点泄气
还行吧，但也不是很值得一看。小孩演的不错。没头没尾地用了indigenous people 的故事，整个电影就是个大写的没头没尾。
整部电影的结尾，故事戛然而止，但是我更多的还是对整个电影主题的疑问。如果它想讲摆脱变态的父爱，那么神话传说的引入就不是那么恰当，前后的铺垫也不太完整；如果只是想讲一个恐怖故事，那么儿童虐待的问题就显得有些多余。不过值得一提的是，整部电影对于环境的渲染是相当不错的，无论是大雾的晚上、幽静的林中小路、漆黑一片的矿道，还是结尾辽阔的湖边，都很好地衬托了电影的氛围。
又是典型美式血肉模糊恶心怪物片，不恐怖，不好看
女主一人之力搞死了全部，怪兽造型不错，开心就好，完全不用理会剧情。小男孩演的好，大有可为，表扬。
是有点好笑，但是片子长到新鲜劲儿一过我就开始无比厌烦
要说我是有多满意，那倒不是，但是这种不搞氛围直接给观众视觉冲击的恐怖片确实要吃香不少。电影前期来说拍得不太美国，清冷的色调和场景反而更像是北欧的作品，不过后面特写的血腥场景和怪物估计会让不少胆小的观众san值狂掉。（越来越想看哭悲了）
能很明显看出来导演想表达很多深层次的含义，包括自然的，殖民的，家庭的等等，但所有元素都只是点到为止，就显得没有重点了。小朋友的演技很不错。另外，这个结局太草率了……恐怖氛围也营造🉐比较普通，没有什么惊喜，中规中矩之作
四星给小男孩，他爹有他真的是福气！都那样了还契而不舍的坚持给爸爸弟弟找吃的。话说小浣熊好像有点小，不够爸爸吃吧…爸爸也是好样的，坚持不吃孩子…
制毒老爹惹火恶魔被鹿魔附身喝血吃肉。小男主家破人亡老爸弟弟全部被鹿魔盯上。最后女主把已经变身的男主弟弟杀死带着男主离开。
单纯看到封面有David Duchovny进去叨扰了一下 啊真的不好意思（辣眼电影Orz 能集齐那么多男神真厉害啊
一个老套的邪神恐怖故事。但氛围不错，雾气弥漫的森林，阴郁的天空，湿冷的气候，孤僻古怪的小男孩，家中的秘密…
【2.5】各方面都太过时，核心的怪兽设计于我而言也无法满意。
带有几分神话色彩的恐怖电影，依旧是美国方式的恐怖节奏，惊悚和悬疑都给你铺垫好了，看不看就由你了。吃活人那几组戏确实给我吓住了，而且还很恶心，但变身后的怪兽没有什么新意，仍然是西方审美体系中恶魔的化身。导演最后故意给观众留下了一个悬念，但我也真的不想再看什么第二部了。
so good，二十一世纪是女权在文艺中兴起的世纪
还行，小演员表演出色，只是女教师追杀到矿井深处手刃妖灵连带斩草除根实在有点过了，好歹这怪也轻易杀了数条汉子，凭什么女主就套上了猎魔人buff？至于女主家庭暴力虐待这类背景都不用细究，当灵异鬼片看就行
剧情太拉了...但是喜欢除了剧情以外的所有😢
是有点好笑，但是片子长到新鲜劲儿一过我就开始无比厌烦
期待了好久的美式恐怖，有点失望诶…从内容到氛围营造《鹿角》做的都不够出色，和同期的影片相比，感觉差了好多…
美国西北挺适合北欧滤镜 又见闪灵双峰暮光之城同款迷雾冷山森林
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