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.
挺混乱的 故事简单 但又不是完全看不下去。。。
既没“鬼屋”，也不惊魂！86分钟的时长，至少56分钟全片黑暗，我说的黑暗就是单纯的黑暗，灯光布置的不够专业，原本想烘托英式恐怖的暗黑氛围，结果弄巧成拙。点开导演Santiago Menghini的简介，恩，这部片还是用点心的，我指的不是用来吃的点心，但是鉴于是网飞平台的电影，它给了很多小众电影出头的机会，才能看到除好莱坞工业流水线电影外的作品，它们成本低且粗糙，但足以见到更多优质导演的野心。
有一些氛围恐怖感居然挺强的，不知道是不是半夜看产生的错觉
片中女主的妈妈可真讨厌 像极了现在那些视自己的孩子为私有物品的家长 不断的要求孩子顺从自己 不过最后被反杀了 哈哈哈
很一般啊，没有鬼的话为什么一开头有个湿脚印，有鬼的话为什么又是两个男的杀人？所以箱子里的怪物是不能自己杀人吗？
制作很精良，剧情推进也比较紧凑，美中不足的是故事的逻辑性，到最后也没有说清楚为什么是这样的结局，可能是我的数学没学好，不知道薛定谔的猫到底死没死吧……
很一般啊，没有鬼的话为什么一开头有个湿脚印，有鬼的话为什么又是两个男的杀人？所以箱子里的怪物是不能自己杀人吗？
很没意思 冲着怪物看的 结果他镜头少的可怜 剧情像裹脚布 就..ummm 三星给怪物的造型 挺独特的 可惜是个烂片(没想到我还会有为怪物惋惜的时候)
好片，值得看，这恐怖得有水平有创意，通往地狱的数字台阶原来是物理学家和魔鬼的一笔交易。诡异事件都是胡思乱想出来的，自然有大把漏洞，看着玩别当真。
比预期要好，女主胆子超级大，而且超级相信别人，逻辑倒也自洽：因为胆子超级大所以敢各种相信别人。总体来说是一部挺不错的恐怖片。
落魄小妹遭遇黑心房东，在加上一点玄幻元素，整体阴暗色调，有那么一点点恐怖气氛，然后就这样了
The Girl Next Door becomes the MILF Next Door.
氛围不错，就是结尾手电筒敲别个手那里有点幽默
有一些氛围恐怖感居然挺强的，不知道是不是半夜看产生的错觉
看完之后总觉得看了个寂寞。说不通的地方太多，为什么献祭只要女性？可是到最后男性也吃？？？在女主献祭的时候，她的远房亲戚来救她，最后却只是一个幻象？有点多余，看的不明所以。让人摸不着头脑，没意思。而且中间很拖沓，两星给怪物造型。
1.25-1.5倍速推荐，前面真的太慢了还没什么有用的信息量。最后反杀看得还是挺爽的。怪物造型赞，但为什么这么容易被女主克住没看明白。
还不错，怪物造型很特别，故事也完整，就是最后关于怪物的由来没有说有点一头雾水。
挺无聊的，出戏程度的降智，还以为不会有恶魔展示镜头呢，排队走路的奇观挺有意思
每次在直播间看电影都没头没尾，需要自己补看头或尾。
女主挺漂亮 但是人设就比较自我感觉良好 又活该
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