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.
很满意的一个平凡人的不平凡的一生，也许我们的生活没那么多精彩，但我们活的很真实
那么，我们终其一生，是为了什么呢？
电影想体现的东西太多了，最后反而有点仓促的节奏
韩松母亲临终对他说：你的心在哪里，家在哪里，爱在哪里，哪里是家。这是亲情的伟大！
但他为了藏区的孩子们，依旧留了下来。
90年代初，一个名叫韩松的大学刚毕业就选择到藏区支教的老师，从北京怀揣一颗青春躁动的心，来到偏远的草原上一所藏区小学，与一群藏区孩子们发生的生活，学习与成长的故事。
这部电影已经推荐给朋友看了，没什么惊心动魄，但是平淡中充满了真实，值得推荐
比起小鲜肉和大牌明星，我更喜欢这样真善美的电影
据说是根据真实故事改编，不得不说，在人间就需要这样的真善美
韩老师和梅朵我的意难平啊，喜欢这种有同样的追求和大爱的一对儿，是爱人是朋友是灵魂伴侣
这个世界还是美好的人事物多，都平凡的生活在世界的每个角落，只是我们没有发现。
韩老师的扮演者可以看出对这个角色揣摩的真的很到位了，把角色的纠结和内心的挣扎全都体现出来了不过我还是希望能出第二部，多关注一下藏区的生活
电影讲述了很多故事情节，但是却显得有些混乱，可挑选几个重要情节详细展开
善良的人最识得善良！印象深刻的就是病危母亲临死前对男主的灵魂质问，你的爱在哪里？你的家在哪里。
许下承诺很容易，但是坚守起来却很难，如果换成绝大多数人，都会坚持不下去吧，韩松老师却做到了，真的很了不起。
没有特别华丽的场景，也没有特别出名的演员，我们在这部电影里面看到的完全是质朴的老师和学生们，真的很感动
★★★★ 西藏支教的老师被当地学生所感动，最终留下来支教一生的故事，很佩服这样的情操，也很感叹西藏的美丽景色！
近期观看体验比较好的电影之一，没有那么多浮夸的特效和跌宕的情节，但就是看的让人流眼泪
看完整个影片可以说是意犹未尽，回味无穷。这部电影没有很华丽的手法，没有很绚烂的景致，没有很精美的服装道具，但是所表达的情感却直击人心。只有最真挚的情感才能够打动人，在这部电影里朗措的英勇，梅朵的善良，韩老师的坚持，孩子们对于知识的渴望以及草原的宽容、孤寂、辽阔，还有背后的阴影，所有的这一切组成了这部电影的最美与最痛。 最为荒凉，最为落后的地方，总是会因为一些人一些事而变得美好正是因为有了他们，国家才会源源不断的进步，教育才会不断的发展。希望越来越多的孩子能够走出大山，看看这个世界，也希望驻扎在山区的老师无病无痛无灾无难，希望山区的人民都能越过越好。
善良的人最识得善良！印象深刻的就是病危母亲临死前对男主的灵魂质问，你的爱在哪里？你的家在哪里。
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