戒版The City on the River is a tragicomedy about the ultimate triumph of human virtues in the face of systematic, institutional inhumanity.
戒版The City on the River is a tragicomedy about the ultimate triumph of human virtues in the face of systematic, institutional inhumanity.
回复 :经过20多年,约翰娜返回到她青年时所住的前西德边境的村庄。她30岁初头,非常的迷人也很聪明,她被迫揭开了很早以前改变了她一生的秘密...关于新幼儿园教师的消息迅速蔓延整个村庄。人们一点儿都不了解她,只知道她的名字叫约翰娜。她看起来很不错,待人友善,但她仍然是这个村子的陌生人,一个讨厌的,为了自己的事情问东问西的局外人。约翰娜想知道“过去”的一切,尤其是关于发生在许多年以前村庄的那桩死亡事件。她很快意识到可疑的村民们保持着一种神秘不愿谈论过去的某些事件。约翰娜固执的迎难而上。她利用自己的性感迷人,使村庄里一个又一个男人渐渐透露他们的秘密...关于隧道用于从东到西的地下运输,从东部走私古董,以及杀害一名男子的凶手反对这种行为。曾试图阻止肮脏贸易揭发走私行为的正是约翰娜的父亲,而他以自己的生命为揭发此事做了极大的努力。但是,村民的仇恨并没有就此停止。继她死去的丈夫被宣判为“共产主义背叛者”之后,约翰娜的母亲被关进了监狱。与母亲分开后,约翰娜当时已失去了她的整个家庭。一步一步,约翰娜终于将事件拼凑完整。但是,约翰娜在玩的是一个致命游戏,她独自一人在这个村庄尽一切努力保护其黑暗的过去...即便是与她有着情愫的村庄警察也很难保护她。这时发生了戏剧性的对决,约翰娜终于与杀害她父亲的凶手面对面...
回复 :据说长子之塔藏有无尽的宝藏,引来了许多人的觊觎,也因此而丧生。约翰与麦可两兄弟也在寻找此塔,他俩的重逢,勾起令人感伤的回忆,而感情恩怨使麦可想致胞兄于死地。一次暴风使约翰生死未卜,约翰的独生女黛安,为寻父而踏上危险之旅,在旅途中,她巧遇天文物里学家荷根,两人结伴同行,而黛安的旧往情人拉西德王子总在危难之际现身解围。荷根也渐渐爱上黛安,常常与拉西德争风吃醋。最后历经千辛万苦,众人终于来到长子之塔,一解千古之谜。
回复 :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.