Toula（妮娅·瓦达拉斯 Nia Vardalos 饰）虽然在美国出生长大，国产却是生活在一个巨型的希腊世界中，国产整个庞大的家族以父亲权威般的意志为代表坚持着希腊是世界之源的精神动力，从小就眼观着家人古怪行为的Toula听得最多的就是母亲与神经质祖母的言论：嫁给一个希腊人，生一大堆希腊小孩，喂饱自己的肚子直到世界的最后一天。长到30岁的Toula邋遢肥胖，在一次夜雨中继续听着父亲的唠叨，然而当她走进日复一日工作的家庭餐馆时，她决定要改变自己的命运！她去学习，去美容院整理自己的仪容，当她浑身散发出自信时，命定的白马王子Ian（约翰·考伯特 John Corbett 饰）出现了，二人一见钟情，迫不及待要组织自己的新家庭。对这个庞大的希腊家族来说，Ian不折不扣是一个外人，婚礼的繁琐和斗争才刚刚开始，不同的价值观引发了一连串笑料。
回复 :经营鹅毛业的波拉对另一位鹅毛商米塔的养女蒂莎一直有好感，苦苦追求，但米塔却将蒂莎下嫁给一个只有12岁的男孩。在无力满足蒂莎的性要求后，蒂莎逃婚离去；波拉想买下蒂莎，无奈米塔却不愿成人之美，皆因想独自享用蒂莎，于是蒂莎再度逃跑。后来波拉找到蒂莎并将她接回家与妻子儿女共住；蒂莎日久生厌，又一次出逃前往贝尔格莱德。途中蒂莎还与货车司机勾搭上，翻云覆雨一番。波拉得知蒂莎最终又回到了养父身边时勃然大怒，在与米塔纠缠打斗后，开枪打死了米塔；等到警察赶来，波拉早已逃去。
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.
回复 :生活在一个幸福家庭的母亲和幼子在一次车祸中丧生，父亲和年长的儿子Jonas在这次事故中幸存下来. 现在他们不得不一起继续面对未来的生活...这是一部瑞典本土的伦理亲情电影，北欧那清新的空气，空旷美丽的自然风景下印趁着人物，悠扬悦耳的歌声下人物的生活...◎ 获奖情况：该片荣获2007年瑞典最高的国家电影奖项Guldbagge Awards的观众奖, 并获得最佳男演员提名
