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.
徐帆值得三星，剧情很平淡全靠她撑起来的，前期觉得她演的很一般，后面看到她就开始哭。但是张婧仪演的太差了，她的表演拖后腿的存在。所以，整体给了两星。徐帆抬头说，“我没时间了”。电影院里总共五个人，哭得稀里哗啦的。
徐帆身上有一种自然而然的带着娇嗔感的嗲味，赋予了中年女性角色难能可贵的鲜活气息。
无法接受甘于自残的爱，比如沉沦渣男。
想到了我妈，也是一个控制欲很强的人，家里发生变故之后为我们操碎了心，最近她身体不太好，但好在，好在是良性的。
第三个，同病房的癌症患者带妈妈去她曾经奋斗过的火锅店。
从导演到编剧再到表演（韩云云除外）以及其他各项技术，全部都不行，完全就是电视剧的套路，故事、表演、调度，全部都是。既然不是拍电影的料，建议就去好好拍电视剧吧，兴许还能拿个高分。｜4.0
改编之下，所有人物之间的冲突柔和了不少，原本的社会议题被集中在家庭内部的和解，更多的“感动”填补了原本冲突的一部分，于是影片想要“煽情”的目的就表现得很明显了。当然，刻意营造的情绪反差，人物反差，甚至是遗愿清单式的最后的洒脱，都让它煽情很成功。
确实给我哭得够呛，中间还按了暂停去跟我妈打了两个小时电话。但必须说电影总体拍得比较一般，呈现手法太直接了，不高级，煽情过度，需要你哭的点特别明显，结果却又忍不住，一边哭一边有点被算计被消费感情的感觉。结尾搞半天希望女儿为自己而活，结果还是去实现妈妈的梦想了，啧。
这部电影的定位很准确，就是要来赚你的眼泪的，母女情+绝症+扶弟魔+阿尔兹海默症+不伦之恋……所有最能催泪的题材都让一部电影集齐了，势必要对观众的经历做一个全方位无死角打击。
很久不见的《渴望》类型片。虽然一切都很刻意，但是还是不争气的哭了一路。妈妈有种现在很难得的隐忍侠义，传统文化的代表。可惜大侠要么萍踪侠影，要么入世难免吐血而亡。普度众生先要爱惜自己，显然妈妈并没有做到。但是最后妈妈尊重自己选择和他人选择的智慧，又很超脱。一个人一种活法，看山看海做人，所以又都挺好。
故事很普通，和名字一样普通，但是太好哭了。
如果抛开生老病死，为什么我们一定要与中国式亲情绑架强行和解？
会把自己代入女儿，不想让母亲管又内心愧疚，也许是母亲过高的期待扭曲了孩子，让孩子变得不知自己要什么，过于软弱。
故事散碎，人物转变略生硬，类似小红花+李焕英，希望我们关于亲情的，关于女性电影，可以突破畸形关系，从物化与被物化中挣脱出来，塑造一个立体与勇敢的人物形象。
徐帆的表演是风格化的，妈妈的人物小传也是特别的，但是剧本非要往妈妈的共通性共情去靠，观感自然撕裂
总体来说感动不足，搞笑有余，尤其是他们在海边尬舞那段，我真的快笑出声来。
泪点是真的能戳，这个话题谁会不哭呢？但是这娘俩的关系和人设也太不现实了，小美怎么看都不像个做小三的人啊
不要把生命献给无知，平庸和低俗。 徐帆演技蛮好的。 剧情也是蛮有代表性的。 只是...身体不舒服那么久，家人还是医生，去检查或者提一句不行吗...
就是故意拿各种催泪元素让你哭 捅的你不得不哭 但挺烦的
作为观众猜到这题材后面肯定会卯着劲煽情，心里就会有了预估，还好影片处理得也算克制。
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