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剧情简介

Somewh<ere in t*>`h^]e remote region, the
 war
$; '>end[^?=s. In>! the \*,mid_s.#&t of ruined! cities and houses in th<%e st+;+"reets,$
\!\ in rural [[
.hamlets, eve-rywhere where]_ peopl[#;">e still liv#%$e, are chil,>dre% =n who have " lost th=eir ho#) )mes )and paren!t,+'s. Abandoned, h/ ( ungry, and in rags, defenseless and humili?at=?ed[(, t@_hey wa>"n=(d,er throu\*@gh % & th
-!e worl/,d/!. Hunger driv+,es them.">?@$ Little @stre*<ams of orphans merge in;to a r
$iver &
which rushes fo "rw,.=+ard and;:[ submerges everything in it<;.s ] -;path
< -. The children do n**ot know < ?an[[y feeling; they^ k:_n^,o?w only the world of th+ eir en emies. They *fight, stea :l, struggle f]or >
a mouthf !]ul !of f,>ood, a[@+`nd viol][ enc\-e is merel`^*y  a means )_to get>\" it.+ A "gang le] d
,! by Cahou@n -finds a re fu?-ge )
in a@:+n a\*b;>andoned ca,stle and<` ""(encounters "an old composer w.]$ho has vol=(-/unt`ar
>%ily r<@etir>ed int+_!o #&solitude from_\]\ a world of' hatred, t&%reason.!), and crime.-)< How can the&_y  f/<=ind a c(ommon.#^ gro\)und^,' h).ow can they become m.^/ut?"\_ua<(l frie
nds The castle becomes the*ir hidin/
=g place but possibly it @w*<ill also be t @heir fi] .rst>`?# home wh[_ i,ch t`(hey may organize? and mus??t d[;efen>d. But :!ev.en f
/!or this, t;-he pr]&ic</e will +/$be v:ery high.　　To t"his s imp(le story,% the^] journalist, writer, p._>oet, scriptwriter, mo:%vie di rector, an&d film theoret.@;ic#%;ian Bé\l@a Balá)+&$zs app\$lie^d _m< (any y,ear"'(s of experience. He a%! nd the director .&Gé((
za Radványi created a^ work
'#which opened a new ]p
ostw!-  ar chapter in Hungar=ian film%.%. Surprisin-:gly, this f># ilm has not lost any of i#:ts=! impa:^ct :o
ve$r th< e ye=ars,:_ e=sp'&ecially on a prof)ound p<
,hilos$oph $i&-cal level.[)+/ Tha't is to s+^ay,& it "i_s?^? not merely a m?o,]v]ie abou\ -*t w ,a,-&!r; it is not impo-_`r,\'tant i<(,;n wh`: &at ?l(ocatio';&n and in wh]a=t perio
d of time it takes place.+ It is a story* outside- of $) time $
ab^&+@o`u_t _the joyle> ss fate of children_ who pay dea rl-y for t he c<ruel war game&;@s of:: ad*u.-lt:^^s?(& .　　At @t[(he/: time )it was premiered, the movi e was >"-enthusiasti=\call`]y re#=',ceive?d+ by th[_e crit <ic^,s.. Th>_e
? main roles"!\ were t\aken):[; by \ stre%\'etwise boys of a children's gr$;+%oup wh#<o c_reated@ the,ir roles improvi?/^ sati+ onally in= close -!(co'>,ntact with a
- few-( professio:'nal ]?>acto_#\rs./, and in. the chil@dren's a_cting th#eir own fr'@!esh experi>ence of war's turmoil appears  to be / r+? eflected. At the same% ti@me, their` + ]performance f"its"& adm/>irably int=(`.o th#e/ mosaic of a ve]ry comple:x /movie lan[+&g #uage. ]?Balá zs's^ influ[e//_nce revealed itself  , abo
=+ ve all, in $.<the ;intro?ductory`)! s$&eque_;nc =es a&^n air raid on an amusement park, se,,:en in a montage of dr"<ama=[>tic situ! ati! ons e<<@(&voking the l)]ast spasm]+$#s/"> ( of war ', where, u)$=ndou\btedl_"y?, we di=s)!cern ?>$t/<he influ@ence of classi'-"cal Sov \iet cinemato-=^\graphy. Sh\_ooting, th&[e boy's esc+$ape, the loc&?omo*tive@@]'s wheels, the sha"d ^ows of s%+oldier.-s with submachi%:ne guns, the !s%"#oun+[d #of  :a whistle—(;the i_#`mages ]?_[ar e lin"_^*ked`%!<[ tog(ether in abru<-pt sequence:s in which varyi-ng shots -+and ex_#pressive, s=harp s\#ounds ,a"\"re em'`pha\.?(s@.ized. A perfect:[ly planne
^<d screenpl\$ay avoid]..ed all elements% o/;f sentimentality,@> tim`e-worn stereot$ypes of wr:(onged +"children, rom^anticism and cheap sim*pli:fi cat#&ion. The a: u_;tho- :rs
\
s_u cce:@eded in br&idging t;)he peri"lous ]" 'dramati@/c ab -yss %of t&&h`*e metamorphosis&(\ of a c* hildren's comm!"unity. Their t`elling of the story (the?"
< scene of pillaging(, th).*e as)'sault o_ n 
t,%=]$he# % #cas"_%tle, et^\c) in
*;d^+"e pendently introduced some neore]:ali +st ?-elem&en=-#ts =\which, at t:!hat time,_>^ wer*@)e being p]^rop_)aga ?_-t/ed in Italy by D [+e [
S i[ca, -Rossellini< __, and :( *other( f)]ilm artists. The;\ _(\.rebuk(>,es of contemporary critic 's#
, wh`o c alle_#d! at?:tentio_@n`>+ to formalism for ^it##;s own sake$(* have@" bee'n [forgotten.> The ma*-`"sterl# y %/art of cameraman Barnabás '/Hegyi\-) give. /s ":vitality '=to the poetic\[-- ima(!]ges. His angle#> sh?='ots of)?[ the children, ';his composition of scenes in: the cast^?l )_e interior, are (="#a liv "+-ing doc"/
ument of the times, and underlin^*+e the =atmos:\
phere and th##e charact
@ers of t@^-he protagonists`#:. The succ$ (ess o[!f the picture was a
lso en>@hanc, .$ed by the musi)+cal.% a] ?rt&$ of compos*?@er $Dénes Buday who,< in tense situations;- , ins[-e;--rted th[/e them"\,]e]% ,of  _the< Ma\"`rseilaise into  the movie's st=r_+uctu_re, as/ a! ] m<)otive of "(;co==mmunity+ u/$
'ni#fication, as an ex/pressi@,on \/ of& fri^&<end.-ship!# a<:"nd&; the`' p^$(ossibility o%')f unde]+rs/ta%>nding.　　Valahol @'E:uro@/'\paban is the fir
/[,st(
 $+sig[@.)nifican^\t' postwar Hun' `garian f(ilm. It o@riginat>ed in a re/lax)<]ed atmosphere, r-&*eplete wi%th joy an"/d euphor'ia,[,! and it i(+_]nclude'?s th']"ese =#elemen\;[[t s in order ``to demo=;nstrate] t,$he !
stren/"gth of hu' m,*$a`<[nism, :!tolerance,., and friendship. >['^It rep-r(&*ese [nts  ,a general conde-,:mnatio>]=n ) ?of war#; anywhere i.@n the world, in- [ any form.