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.
防毒面具，畸形怪物，养蜘蛛的老头
制作组足够努力……然而我对又脏又乱又湿的环境反感至极……看不下去
风格很独特，但是完全看不懂，昏昏欲睡地看完
两个士兵应该不是同一个，第一个是纸地图，第二个是皮缝的地图
妖魔鬼怪，群魔乱舞，怪力乱神，血腥肮脏！虽然是部动画片，但还是比较重口，看的让人有点生理不适，而且里面隐喻太多，看的似懂非懂！但还是值得一看的。
杂乱昏暗的世界背景下充斥着各类畸形怪物，在大量定格模型的镜头下显得真实可怖，以一种先遣队探险式的路线走进下层布满惊恐无序压抑的环境中，看出了压榨掠夺和战争的反讽元素，但导演最终的核心没有能把握到。
bloody hell. 异形宝宝也要接受社会调剂。
能拍出这种诡异的电影，主创团队绝对是有点能耐！
当然也可以简单的理解为
看完觉得很牛逼！尤其是那个操纵时间的梗，你说会不会有一个宇宙时间是倒流的？
心智正常的人，没有一个希望战争
废土，机械，朋克，克苏鲁，邪典外加导演的个人恶趣味
血 内脏 混乱 溃败 奴隶 核恐惧 战争 变异 欲望 无限。佩服制作团队三十年磨一剑，但是单纯视效奇观的堆砌导致后期观感下降。
太精致的定格动画，每一帧都很用心，就是画面是真的是掉san，而且情节的确非常非常的晦涩。
定格动画算是一个比较冷门的题材，毕竟实在太费时费力了，比一部常规电影还难做，所以很多人不愿意。可能也是因为这个原因，定格动画总体上质量都还不错，毕竟为爱发电总是会用心去制作的。回到电影本身，没有对白导致剧情上有一点点不太明白，大概就是一个士兵的来到一个地下世界（我就当他是地狱好了），然后所见所闻，最后被抓住，剖开肚子拿出一个新生生命体，然后被医生护士交给巫师，巫师再拿给科学家炼化成粉末，最后巫师用这个粉末干嘛干嘛（毁灭世界？）电影可以说是集科幻、血腥、重口、惊悚、恐怖、魔幻、邪典于一体，要素非常丰富，赞美的话我也想不出来太多，但是观影体验确实一流，很好的片子，7.4分还是低了点。
很爽的一次噩梦参观体验，冲着30年再加一星
先别管什么隐喻不隐喻的，视觉感受真是非同凡响。饭前服用疗效好！
诡诞猎奇，血腥夸张的画面使我几乎是皱着眉看完前半部分，后半部分分心了，因为我害怕若将我完全投入我会变疯癫。这种艺术形式对我来说还太过超前了，猎奇得注定不是为主流人群所做的作品。
刚开始觉得是一张迷幻专辑的MV，越往后看越觉得画面和音乐缺一不可，合二为一胜过任一。
两个士兵应该不是同一个，第一个是纸地图，第二个是皮缝的地图
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