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.
比起外国人对宏大叙事的态度，中国人好像有个特点，就是一味回避真相，只记得住那些大的，澎湃的，虚假的，气球一样的东西，
这场新冠疫情究竟会对人类历史产生多大的影响？英国人对政府发出的质问会让西方放弃对自由观念的盲目崇拜吗？拭目以待。因为《新冠时期的爱情》才看的。
-一直很担心女主和tony会有所谓的男女情感 还好没有
那个让人崩溃的夜。一直持续着。
啾啾怼脸镜头仍然hold住！女神牛逼！
covid change the world，so sad.face to the death,the world became more cold.this movie beat the heart directly.so deeply.
看到的第一部涉及新冠疫情的影片，在灾难面前人性与价值的呈现。这不是那些习惯了胜利叙事的人所习惯的角度，但却最能触动人心。
时代的一粒沙落在个人身上是座山。敢于质问勇于发声就是改变的开始。ps:几位主演全出生在利物浦，口音很正宗😂
朱迪科默今年奉献了两部非常精彩的表演，灾难来临最先受难的永远都是弱势群体
从护理院这个小类别切入，展现英国对新冠疫情的防疫过程和普通市民的心理变化，结局不落俗套，挺好的。
我认为这才表现新冠病毒最好的方式 不是通过紧张大医院大规模的健康状态 快速留下更少的思考感受时间 这天然的会让人产生隔阂 让人难以共情 应该是表现小的群体 甚至一个人面临的困难和处境 就像这个电影一样大量的脸部特写 反应一个人面对困境的情感冲击 她就像是和我们一样的普通人 把我们放在她的环境中 体会是一样的 以小见大 更能反映出疫情下对每个人造成的冲击以及影响
电影就不说了，太敏感！还是赞美一下朱迪科默吧，太牛掰了，一连拍了好几部大片！
医疗体系被击溃的时候，人类的生命和尊严会远远比影片中来得残酷吧。Jodie的口音真的好奶～
善良和同理心有时候就是在事态变化时候油然而生的，可能很疯狂但是也很无奈
又是一部类似疫情纪录片的电影，又是恍惚着感叹这是两年前的事情，又是无奈的期盼这一时代能快点结束的心情。
看到片尾的字幕，会对这种作品充满敬意，期待有朝一日我们也可以用电影来改变社会
口音英语听着挺亲切就是有点费劲。
大量的近焦摄影，大面积的虚化，长时间的一镜到底，如此风格化的摄影特别切合电影的表达，一种社会视角的歧视性选择性对焦，一种看到了又无能为力的感觉。
看到的第一部涉及新冠疫情的影片，在灾难面前人性与价值的呈现。这不是那些习惯了胜利叙事的人所习惯的角度，但却最能触动人心。
如果边吃边看，一个半小时的影片只能恰半小时的快乐饭。前段护理中心的生活朴实温馨，镜头平稳写意；中段新冠的冲击来得如此迅速，Sarah穿过昏暗的走廊往返于办公室和病患房间的二十多分钟的一镜到底尤为精彩和令人揪心；后段主创们的私心满溢，看得我逐渐出戏；片尾寥寥几句关于英国新冠最严重时期护理中心死亡数字的陈述，直戳NHS脊梁骨，却又好像无可奈何。Never is. （Jodie作为本片Actor & Executive Producer的表现可圈可点；新赛季埃弗顿请打趴利物浦谢谢
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