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剧情简介

Some+ wh $)ere in the remot :)e region, the war end)#s. In t)[^he mi-dst o%=@-f#^ r.;ui[
\@ned,
citie(_s\- and houses in the%= stree$?ts\ , in rura-l ; hamlets,.. /ev [\]er_ywhere where people s ;:t_/ill live, are childr#$$en who hav
$e lost! their !homes and parent%s. Abandon +e[d.:, hungry, [)/and in rags, defens):/eless/;: an?(d humiliated, t^(!hey wander through t==,he world. Hunger dr*^ives them!). =-$Lit tle streams .
of or[*=phans^ merge into a river which rushes , forw\ ard %,!@a##=nd subm`#`+erges everything in its)$
_ pa%
th. T[_he )childre?*/n =-%^d\?:%o not know any feeling; they[/* kn[!^ow only the world of th,/eir e;$` nemies.=[`% The*y fight =, ,s,@@teal, stru!!, ggl.e -for a m]#o#! uthful of f ood, and violence is mere_ly $a -]_m=/eans[*- to get it.=` A g ang l!^ed by  ,+Cahoun find+: =s a ref*$uge in a;n a@bandoned c
astle and en c;: ounters %an old composer who has voluntar]^ily r+etired%- 
:in *to sol*itude from a (;+wor?!l$)^d of )ha tre -=d, (@treaso?`
n, and crime. How can \they find a common g?rou [nd, how-?_, can they b-ec^@ome mutual friends The castle becom es --their hidi[#%^ng  place b;[ut po^?s=$s[_@ibly# $=/it \#[will al=? so be their f irst home w_ hich they may organize and mu .s]t defend. But=* even for this, the pri$ (ce will? be 
,very high.　*.;　To this simple sto;r y, th#^e jo:_urna/@list, writer,, poet(, @/*$s @criptwriter,()+ movie director, an%d film theo]ret ician Bé la _Balázs applied many years of experience.
He and the! director Géza #Ra_*dványi created \a work wh,?- i*;,ch )) $op:e!)`ned a new ]-postwar chapt-#e^r i?;n Hunga(-+*r[.^ian f[?ilm\,_\?. Sur
#prisin@$gly:+, t`+his film has not l
:ost a%(ny of its impact over the years, especi (,ally on a profound philosophical ]le #vel^. That is t, \o say, 
it is` n=:ot mere
-ly a movie about w];ar*%; i $t @_  is not important in w 
hat loc. /=atio],/n and (.#in what period of time it .takes pla]ce.
=_It is a $,story ou;tside of, time \ about +_th@=,e joyless fate of@\%+ =\childr
en who pay dearly for^ the cruel war_$= g+:ames !of !,a,[,dults.　　At the tim `e it ,!!was p ( remiered, the movie was enthu+siast;
%ically receiv[#ed b^y the critic
.%s. The main! $_ro les were ,?taken by?^ streetwise b]oys @/@of a ch.il # dre[
n'`
#s.= gro!)up wh)?!o created their roles improv+$isationally in =$/^clo`];se c]on
tact ]%[with a% few pr;#_ofes
?\sional actors, an

d in @ the @children's acting  their own fresh: ex=per]!i
:ence of war's tu (rmoil a$+ppear`$
s to be reflected. At the s!$[ame time, their performance fits admirably* into the mosa*ic o
=f a very comp%\lex
/ _movie la)n-guage. Balázs's)  influ )ence reveale+,d itself]), abo *ve all, in the ,int/rod`uctor]y seque/nces an #$ air raid on an a!=*mus ement+/ p:@:ark, seen i?,n a montage of d-=\ram_
,a)\tic si-
=tuat.*ions evoking the last spasms of war,)` w\her/*e/,#, und%?oubtedly, we disce^]r.]n the inf.luence o%?;f$?+ clas-sical So*viet cinem
atogra-\ phy. Sho#^oting, the boy's e;!scape, th[\e l^ocomo% tive's wheels, the shadows of
:s@)/oldiers% with ][=:subm[?a-: chine guns, th.@e sound), =%.of a w,%[h;:^is/tle^—the images are linke,__d=+@ [= together in abrupt ^ sequ:en@c  es i`?n which varyi^ ng shots #an d e]xpress!$ive shar%[p`* sounds +=+^are emph=-asized. A pe[%rfect$,(ly p?]?lann[[ed screenp,l ay avoided a./ )ll.# elements of sentimen`*]tality^!!*,  time-worn s tereotype-(/s
*of wronged childr\]e:n, roma:^ntici;^sm )and= ^*chea ?`p-:$@# simplificati]#on. !$^T_ he a!.uthors succeed?ed in bridging `(`
the p\ `eril*`ous  dram;atic/ #.^a -]bys(;s of the me$tamo[;rphosis of= = a ;+)c
,%hild`/
ren's communit-^y. Their telling o f` the \$story (%.the^-- sce/ne of pillaging, t,;h#_e) assault on t?^he castle+,?%, etc) inde(
pende[;ntly in! trodu.ced some)- neor-;^_ealist eleme%nts ]% %[=wh *-ich, %at that time, we;re b?],eing propaga;(ted ++@in_. Italy by De Sica, Ros/$se(l.( lini,) a=nd other -`=:film;/ art; ists. The rebukes of con.(temporary critics, wh\?o ca ;ll?ed attention to f@\ormalism,
for its o
-wn sake ha.v/-=e-. been for!]gotten. Th%![e( [maste
rly a.[rt* o
]f cameraman\
 Barnabá/;s Hegyi gives vita:lity to the p) =@oet`ic ]$i$;mages., His .[angle sho;ts of the childre$[=;n^, h;is composition of sce]ne%( -s)_: in [t^\he castle i@!-,%nte*rior, :are a %$living document of *
 #*the times, a nd unde@`rl_ine the a]tm osphere and t *`he ch:]aracters of the pr(ota$gonists[=. The$$ success of the pict%ur.e was also enhan?=/c`e*d by the musical art of co-mpo*;ser Dénes Buday w_%*h)o[, in)#. te/?nse \?[s ;itu??a( t *ions, in *se;#)^:r-
%ted^; the theme of:!
 the Mars(-eilai`\
se i)nto the mov@\ie's s@_tructure, as . a motive of community unifica=ti^o;\n[, as an  ( ex:pres;*s?/ion of f@riendsh-.(ip![( a .\nd t^^]he\?_, possibi+li(%-ty of understa;!nding.　　Va;lahol 
Eur opa%ban is the fi+rst signif
_ica+nt #: pos@twar@/ Hungari(an film. )It o[?%r-*
iginate^%d ;;:in a re_^\*laxed atmospher[e, rep =lete with jo( y and euphori!a-(), ! an*[d it in/(cludes t`hese eleme?)+
nts i
%n order =\t o d!*-e:; monstrate the strength of= ] humanism, tol)eran\!-ce, and friend)ship. It represents
[a , general co`==ndemna*tio%n of wa@r anywhere in t .!h(
e w-)(orld, in .any form.