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.
以及才能是一回事，怎么对待亲人和自己是另一回事。
德国人拍这类题材不是应该得心应手吗，怎么还拍出了美国梦的感觉……改编不是乱编，添加太多刻意的情节反而削弱了原作本身的力量。
时间流逝，多年后我们实现了年轻的梦想。
虽然不明白男主为什么会从之前这样的热爱电影变成一个老混混，但故事总体还算不错。
两颗星的基础上给山田老爷子对电影的执着与个人情感的坚持加一星，故事本身透露着很多过时甚至守旧的无奈与自我，不过导演本身想外放的情感还是值得期待，毕竟看一部少一部了。
我很喜欢这部电影。“山田电影里的男人和女人其实最可爱、最勇敢、最浪漫。”
2021年德国电影学院奖（劳拉奖）影帝作。
男主演技炸裂，令人叹服。改编自著名的同名小说，故事的底子就非常好，加上闪回手法的运用，使故事显得更玄乎深奥（每次看闪回镜头，总要想这是过去还是现在、现实还是虚幻？总觉得脑子不太好使）。电影表达的主旨还是相当明晰的：身体被禁锢是可怕的，所以保有精神的自由显得尤为重要！
虽然水准一般，但是里面因电影相聚，因电影重逢，因电影而关联还是让人挺动情的。
友情分三星 有点失望
对原作极拙劣的改编，忍不住多讲两句:1.B博士这个角色不该被当做主视角来讲述，原作里“我”与他的萍水相逢却无意间了解到他的过往才是人物魅力所在，事无巨细太平庸了，恰恰只透过缝隙的了解才使人物更难以忘怀；2.B博士的落败才是更合适的结尾，原作好就好在他在疯狂热病的最后停住认输并说永不再下棋，而不是一个莫名其妙的胜利；3.对琴多维奇的塑造非常糟糕，作为原作前三分之一都在描述的人物，其实是个很有意思的角色，有句形容是:“但是碰到他那坚韧冷酷的逻辑，都一一败下阵来”电影里毫无这种特质，甚至都配不上说流于俗套而是糟糕。一定要说优点的话就是最后对弈时周围变成了审讯时的画面，当然这点只有电影能做到
老男人不痛不痒的忏悔和洋洋洒洒的自我感动真让我想吐。
留住太阳那里流下了莫名其妙的泪水，电影太好了，谢谢电影，谢谢山田导演。
如果你觉得自己做的不好，为什么不从现在开始改变呢？
感觉跟着老头一样的人多了去了吧，到最后才醒悟，来得及么？北川景子真漂亮啊！
很简单的故事，看到了默片解说员和编舟记般的纯粹
德国人拍这类题材不是应该得心应手吗，怎么还拍出了美国梦的感觉……改编不是乱编，添加太多刻意的情节反而削弱了原作本身的力量。
我不懂电影技巧，可能也不知道怎么评判一部电影是一部好电影，但是这部电影让我在观影的过程中感受到快乐幸福，我很喜欢。开头和很多日本家庭电影一样，一个爱赌博的爸爸，一个软弱的妈妈。但是从电影院那里开始，一切都不一样起来了，回到那个昭和时代，充满希望和梦想的一群年轻人，永野芽郁和北川景子太美好了，电影里没有坏人，大家都那么善良美好。虽然是个童话，但是在这个糟心的世界里，我们都能从里面感受到幸福，哪怕和火柴的火焰一样短暂。导演借菅田将晖说出要拍让人感到幸福的电影，在我这里，他真的做到了。
跟我一起回到荧幕里吧，在电影中死去（咩酱和苏打不太适合这个角色，btw主旋律太男了
本片的优点也还是有的，比如北川景子，我感觉这是她最会演戏和把她拍的最美的一部电影，朽木都能成才，这点儿真了不起。
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