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It Happened in Europe

Original title: Valahol Európában
  • 19471947
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
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It Happened in Europe (1947)
Drama
A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who's hiding out in a ru... Read allA band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who's hiding out in a ruined castle. After the initial altercation between them the gang accepts his guidance and ... Read allA band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who's hiding out in a ruined castle. After the initial altercation between them the gang accepts his guidance and he wins their respect by protecting them from the elements. However, disgruntled townsfolk... Read all
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
970
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
125,538
41,663
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    • Director
      • Géza von Radványi
    • Writers
      • Béla Balázs
      • Judit Fejér(uncredited)
      • Félix Máriássy(uncredited)
    • Stars
      • Artúr Somlay
      • Miklós Gábor
      • Zsuzsa Bánki
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Géza von Radványi
    • Writers
      • Béla Balázs
      • Judit Fejér(uncredited)
      • Félix Máriássy(uncredited)
    • Stars
      • Artúr Somlay
      • Miklós Gábor
      • Zsuzsa Bánki
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    Artúr Somlay
    • Piotr Simon, the old man
    • (as Artur Somlay)
    Miklós Gábor
    Miklós Gábor
    • Hosszú
    Zsuzsa Bánki
    • Éva
    • (as Zsuzsa Bánky)
    György Bárdy
    • Police Commissioner
    László Horváth
    • Kuksi
    István Rozsos
    László Kemény
    Abraham Ronai
    • Ficsur
    • (as András Rónay)
    György Bodó
    Károly Bicskey
    András Tollas
    Endre Harkányi
    • Director
      • Géza von Radványi
    • Writers
      • Béla Balázs
      • Judit Fejér(uncredited)
      • Félix Máriássy(uncredited)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Voted as one of the "12 Best Hungarian Films" ("New Budapest 12") by Hungarian filmmakers and critics in 2000.
    • Quotes

      Kuksi: What are you writing?

      Piotr Simon, the old man: Sheet.

      Kuksi: What's the use of that?

      Piotr Simon, the old man: That makes music.

      Kuksi: And what's the use of that?

      Piotr Simon, the old man: Huh, you can ask me some very hard questions. How do I say? If something hurts you that very much, or something is so beautiful that it cannot be told by words, then it is told by this way.

      [begins to play the piano]

      Piotr Simon, the old man: It is heard more easily, you understand?

      Kuksi: No.

      Piotr Simon, the old man: Listen to me. There was once a young man in a far-far away land somewhere in France, who would have a lots of things to say to the people. He sat down to the piano and did this.

      [he begans to plan 'Le Marsellaise']

      Piotr Simon, the old man: Didn't you hear this before?

      Kuksi: No.

      Piotr Simon, the old man: Neither of you heard it?

      [no answer just sharp looks]

      Piotr Simon, the old man: It doesn't matter. Nobody has heard it back then. But one day someone walked by in front of the young man's window and heard it. Then another one, then another one. One of them whistled it, another one sang it. More and more people began to sing it. The song has been given wings. And when a giant crowd sang it, they answered with cannon fire. And with bigger and bigger cannon fire, with tanks and machine guns. But the song always remained stronger. It was spread all around the world. Because everywhere the people understood what that young man wanted to say.

      Ficsur: And what did your young men wanted to say?

      Piotr Simon, the old man: He wanted to say: freedom. This is not a child's play, this is the favourite game of the grown-ups. If they try to take it away from them, there's always a great trouble in the world. That's what only so few people understands. That's my favourite game also.

      Péter: Nice little game. We have played it enough on the country roads. Freedom. We have nearly died of starvation!

      Piotr Simon, the old man: You weren't free! You had to tramp, to steal, to rob or else you would die in hunger. Freedom is when you are not forced to suffer, to do bad things and to hurt others. The greatest captivity is poverty.

    • Connections
      Featured in Fejezetek a film történetéböl: A magyar film 1945-1957 (1990)
    • Soundtracks
      La Marseillaise
      (uncredited)

      Music by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1792)

      Played on the piano and taught to the children

    User reviews5

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    1/10
    just awful
    Ugh, I hated this movie! It's a crappy communistic propaganda, nothing else.

    The old wise man is teaching the kids humanism and French revolution, even though this movie was done after the Russians invaded Hungary (I'm sorry, "freed" us), and stayed here for almost 50 years. So you can imagine how much freedom we had here! The Russian army raped over 100 thousand women in the country in '44. They killed a lot of civilians too.

    Besides, the movie is full of editing mistakes. There is barely any story here, just not obnoxious kids and grownups. Shitty music score as well. I can't understand how can they consider this as one of the best Hungarian movies?

    Do not watch it if you don't want to be brainwashed.
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    • Release date
      • December 23, 1947 (Hungary)
    • Country of origin
      • Hungary
    • Language
      • Hungarian
    • Also known as
      • Dogodilo se u Evropi
    • Production company
      • MAFIRT
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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