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Some %%where in ! th/_e remote r!,e%gi/=o^n, t* `h:(e )war ends+@. In ; )the-/ m idst of ru_ined cities and ho/[;_use+s in the streets, in ^ rural ha( mlets, e=% v.-erywhere w \her e p,,^eople still live, are children@ w_; ho have # lost `_their homes and parents. Aban\doned, hungry, a\nd in rags, defen:(s^e;l\\e _ss a`nd*$ humilia/`ted]]%, they#$? wander ], through)^ the +^_world . H\unger drives th.,@em. Litt%+le s treams of orpha ns m %!e%:]rge%? into $)a river which rushes -;forward and s\*ubmerg/ /e s everyth\ in? [g in its* path. #Th ++ e children ,^?do not know ;]!any f#eeling; t)hey [know /on@+ ly the w\ _]orld of-$- their ]en:emies. They fight, stea+(+l, strug*$gle for a ]m/^outh(.ful# o f food`, and violence is merely]/ a means to get it ,). A gang led b ]y Cah(oun finds a r [;efuge in a/*n abando_`_]ned c# a!`stle and enco ?unt]:#@,ers :@ a\n old c/ o:;)mposer w[ho @\-has, v oluntarily reti=,red into `$solitu_+de from a$ world of hat @red, treason_, an^`;d cr` ime . How can they,$( ,fin!/;d a common:?, ground,: ;how can they + !become mutual friends The ca\s],tle becomes th, @eir hiding % p-.lace but p/!ossibly it will a-. lso be t/!heir first% home which _\)they m;=)(a+ + y org;)a; )nize\ and* must ^%+d((efend. But ev .% en .,=for t,h)is, the p,# r -ice will be very high. To t^:+^his si@*mple sto% ;ry, the jou @rnali%$st, writer!`, !p`#oet, scriptw%riter,^: m :ovie director, and film th e ?o^retician Béla Balá@(zs applie d many . year ! s of ex\%perience. He, _ a nd the di^re;$ctor Géz ;$a Radványi created a wor,k which open-[: ed a ne)w postwar cha,$ pt, _er in `.Hungarian fil@ m. Surpri`[singly, this film (ha% s n .ot lost any o f /its impact #: over the y+!!e =^ars, es_-$^pecially on a profound? philoso *phic al le vel.+ ; That * /is to ;s!@_ay, it #!is n%ot merely a mo(vie abo ut\@ war; +it i ].s +.not` important i)n what locati\ on and in -_)what peri\-=od$\ of time! i+[t%_ takes pl*ace. *It: is a story ^ou/?ts i `de of time about the joy!(les#^/(s fate of c\hildren ]who pay -dea+` rly f or `-)the c !*%ruel war gam [es of adults\-. At th+e time . .it wa :s #@premiered)=#, th ,e m]ovie was e _n?.thusiasticall:)(y received% +by the criti)cs?. The m_ain role.s were ta +ken= by streetwise^ boy ] s +`of @ a ch.,+il \/:d@ren's \ group $ =-w^- ho crea],`ted !_/,t(heir) roles improv isationall:y i n close c*- -ontact with a few^ profe #ssi _/on ,,_al a$ ]cto^ \!rs:=,( and (# in$ the chil )(dren's a,ct:(ing their own! fre]` *sh exp$ erience= of war's !tur!moil appe ^]ars )^to be re^:flected. At the same time, @( their_! performance fi *?ts admirably into th )e mosaic of a very( ! complex movie lang *uag^e _. Bal]: ázs's in@f_= luence[_$ rev,ealed=,! itself, ab(=ov(+e a$ ll, in the introduct_or*_y s=equences a %n air ra^id on(_ an am$-usement park,^:_) seen]] in] a mont(_age of dramatic situati ;#:on=[s evoking t)he last spasms / of war,* wher`,]e\;], undoubt edly,` we@-= =/ discern the .] `i^%; n * flu ence of classi%cal Soviet cinem . atograph==y.+ $ _Sho@/=o]! ting, -the boy'!s escape, the %.locomotive?-'s +_wh$!ee$ls, the (shadows of s.oldi ,ers with sub,ma chine guns, the sound ]of ^ a $[^whistle—t^*he im /age-:s a ,re linked toge]+ ther in ab?\ru;!pt s: equen%]ces in which\ varying sh!?ots and e;(_xp r` ;essive shar; p/ #sou(nds are em-[phasize?[d. A perfectly p];lan.((ned s*+,@creenp =lay _//avoided all el / ement$\s of se n@timentality, t+ime-worn stereo, types of wronged children, romantici#sm and ch`\eap+* simp,^lificati (on. The authors su;+-]cce;ed[:ed= i!/n -# bridging the peri+*; lous dra matic ab yss of;! th!e metamorpho)s?is o f a children's communi/`ty. ,%Their tel= ling of t_$/.he s %tor=y (th e;! s[` c e ne of pillaging, the assa!(+[ul.t on the castle, etc)_ inde[# pen] dently introduced some neo*% realist=) @$elemen*_t=)s^ which, at th-+ at t%[ime #^, wer:@^e)= +bein,g =.propagated + in It+aly+ by De Sica, - Rossellini, and: other film artists . The= rebukes;* of contemporary critics(, w;`ho cal` .#led) a_)ttentio^`.n to formalism^+ for its own s`?ake have bee n forgo;t-[ten. Th;^e ]masterly a./rt of #*.came$raman Barnabás H)-e[=``gyi )=+g/ives vit[[`!alit.\y to the poetic*- images\$`. His angle shots of the chi _ldren, h+;i/=s compos ?- ition of +^)scenes in ##( ^ /the ca=%s.;t$*]le interior, =_are a livi] :ng document ) of the times, and u #nderlin ?e t?+;he! atm,osphere and t `*he charac ,)ters of the p rotagon-? is@(`ts. [The succes;@s of th](e picture was.*_% @(also enha?nced by t.)) he .musical @ar(+)t o\ \f com` poser Dén ,es Buday [?,who, in tense situations), inser^ted the ?theme of the M:^(^arse:`ilai#[se in ;to th;e movie's % structure, as _)a!* moti:ve of ].communit?y: unifica)tio:n, a[*/s #^ an expression of frien.] dship$+(; and the possi b ility o* f _understanding@ . Valahol Euro/+paban is the firs[+t= s*,ignificant pos(.!twar H ungarian fil;=m. It ori/*ginated in$ a relaxed a\# tmosphere, replet!# e wi#t $h joy and e .` u/phoria, ? and it %(`incl@] ud--es th_es) e elements i`_n - -orde!!?r to+$. demons^^:t #^rate the strength of hum(anism, tolerance, and frie`n(dship. It represents, a general cond@$emna;%tion of war =/ :anywher e in the; worl d,?\ in any form.