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.
不错！余从戎为掩护队友为敌机活活烧死那一段真的很震撼。致敬
珍惜和平 敬畏战争 是我所理解的战争片的意义
尊严，只在剑锋之上，
珍爱和平。
主旋律片子，前赴后继的英勇，还是可以让人共情的。
制空权轰杀最为令人绝望，刀俎鱼肉，科技绝对是第一生产力。
说实话，就算熟知剧情也还是在最后报数的那里崩溃了，还有伍千里拿出厚厚一摞已牺牲战友的号牌那一瞬间，千玺确实有进步，但台词还需要下功夫，大段台词的时候有点容易出戏了，弟弟继续加油，让自己配得上现有的资源和期待吧
太乱了。没重点没节奏。照《狙击手》差距太大了。
这是七连的冰与火之歌，这是吴京的《战狼4》~剩下的一切尽在不言中~
全程打，没有起伏，音乐衔接不好，例如刚刚煽情完，又来个悲壮音乐……
2.劣势依然是动画特效、强行煽情、外围政治外交的体现、战争思考深度不够。
比第一部短一些，比第一部看的难过了些，比第一部更惨了些，第七穿插连应到157人，实到1人，我哭死了
那这部电影就做好了，你无可否认。。。
没有冻不死的英雄，没有打不死的英雄，只有军人的荣耀。水门桥旁边的一排粗壮的排水管真是神来之笔，演员的妆容更加真实（尤其是朱亚文的）。伍千里用燃烧的身体苏醒了伍万里，这就是一种传承，整部电影在这里得到了升华！
必须致敬！
有时候看看主旋律爽片也不错，至少不用去思考那些深刻的东西，一切都停留在单调的正能量中
万里能活着，是因为大年初一。唉，战争残酷到难以面对和承受
中国人向来是喜欢大团圆结局的，同时相信努力奋斗牺牲就一定会有个好结果，但当这种深镌于民族基因的期待被现实打破，现实的残酷性和电影的艺术性就再上了一个档次。
伍万里真的是见一次爱一次，续集也是非常精彩啊！！
又一部神话片出炉！加一星是给吴京被乱枪打中后没说话！
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