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.
用人不疑，你坏了人家还踢了人家，那十七年，应得的。
我对政治电影的兴趣程度确实不高；另外关于字幕，虽然和电影无关，但还是要说被它恶心到了啊！2月份出资源的时候，被看着不像是机翻的字幕骗进来看，看了20分钟彻底被字幕折腾疯了，只好弃也；这会儿5月又搜出来看，发现字幕好了一点儿，但整体看下来依旧非常不够格 … 我建议各大字幕组选择做字幕就用点心，虽然在这片儿网络地之上，看电影的资源和字幕纯属都是大伙儿自个儿发光发热非盈利建立起来的东西，但这也都是自己的选择啊，要么就不要做，没有字幕我就不看呗，何必恶心人？
室内置景不错，有年代感。
太过理想化的政治斗争，必然以失败告终。尽管历史上金大中屡败屡战最后还是赢了，李善均的角色则极有可能是严昌録，被称为影子军师和狐狸 。片子本身波澜不惊，这几年韩国政治片频出，此片的紧张激烈程度也远不如之前的 南山的部长们，但2大影帝坐镇，加上本片构图打光也算一绝了，闲着无聊也是可以看一下的
就，也就一般吧，简化了的政治选举，手段也么有很如何。。当然生活太复杂，政治更复杂，难以真实展现吧。。。韩国所谓政治电影啊社会电影啊，都不过时隔靴搔痒而已。。国家社会却越来越混乱堕落固化。。。
你知道了吗
“搞政治的人不会演戏也是无能的”——韩国政坛奥斯卡
“柏拉图也讲过，为了正当的目的，可以不择手段！柏拉图是亚里士多德的老师。”
最后停在“而徐昌大并不在那里” 啧 意韵有了啊 / 首尾用鸡蛋的故事来体现人 妙啊 / 还有金云范这么理想化的政客 才是这个片子最童话的部分啊
政治选举本就是肮脏的。关键还是看当选后，干了什么
双男主表演出色，导演调度优秀，要说遗憾，还是韩国电影的老毛病——虽然政治充满了戏剧性，但也不必那么多戏剧性，还有脸谱化。不过，没有戏剧性和脸谱化，那还叫韩国电影吗。
卑鄙是卑鄙者的通行证，
【22】 ————— 🔴 2022【32】 🔵 韩国【14】
奈何我想多了 哎......
3.5分。一对亦师亦友的政坛新秀，目标一致但价值观截然相反，最后难免分道扬镳；政治家和政客这两个概念的巨大区别；韩国人真敢拍：把政治斗争的那种黑暗、你死我活都赤裸裸的展露出来了。
其实探讨了一个很好的议题：正义是谁的正义？
通过改编前“大统领”金大中与影子军师严昌禄的竞选之路，来讲述政治主张与达成手段之间的关系。剧情对ZZ厚黑题材的处理有些理想化了，几次以柏拉图和亚里士多德亦师亦友的和谐关系影射两人，但谁又能保证这对人前默契、光鲜的partner，背后不是雍正&邬思道呢？
李善均表演还胜过薛景求，毕竟一个性格分明的角色更出彩。
但因为这次大部分我没听懂 所以等有资源了再看一次后再打分吧😷
政治是需要有一定的理想主义，但也总得有人干脏活。
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