萨卢斯特（louis de funes）是位粗暴无礼、贪婪爱财的却又爱听奉承的西班牙贵族老爷，他的仆人则贫穷善良。由于一次宫廷阴谋，萨卢斯特失去了恩宠特权，于是他心生报复之心。与此同时，他的仆人爱上了德裔王后，他便有机可乘……
　　本片是funes继《虎口脱险》之后的一部大作，其二号男主角则是法国演员伊夫蒙当，导演是法国大名鼎鼎的喜剧天才--乌里（《虎口脱险》就是他编剧的，他一手捧红了当时名不见经传的funes）。。。由于funes非常擅长刻画贪财势利的讽刺角色，使得本片具有极强的观赏性。并且区别于其他同题材喜剧，该片在一定程度上使用了超现实的创作手法，算得上是一部超现实喜剧/戏剧。如果你喜欢具有西班牙宫廷贵族文化、文艺复兴建筑、中世纪宗教裁判、各种仪式、弗拉明戈舞、骑士、荒漠……还有funes的表演风格，就一定不要错过这部非常传统纯正的法国经典喜剧。

　　Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing dead. This isn__APOS__t terribly effective (you have to take a breath once in a while), so the wife of the burgomaster tries to soften up the invaders with a lavish carnival. So successful is this venture that the Spaniards allow the village to escape being decimated, or even taxed. An award-winner many times over, Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germany; evidently, Goebbels caught on that director Jacques Feyder and scenarists Bernard Zimmer and Charles Spaak were drawing deliberate parallels between the Spanish and the then-burgeoning Nazis.

　　西哈诺（杰拉尔•德帕迪约 Gérard Depardieu 饰）生性狂野不羁，心地善良，他默默地爱慕着表妹罗克珊（安妮•波诺什 Anne Brochet 饰），但是他生来长着一个丑陋的大鼻子，纵使自己才华横溢，也不敢对表妹表明心迹。一天晚上他狠狠地嘲讽并且击败一个富家子之后，罗克珊约他次日见面。西哈诺写好情书后准备表明情愫之时，罗克珊却告诉他自己爱上了英俊的新兵克里斯蒂（文森特•佩雷斯 Vincent Perez 饰），并嘱咐在同一兵队的西哈诺保护他。克里斯蒂也喜欢着罗克珊，西哈诺便将自己对罗克珊的爱慕付诸笔端以克里斯蒂之名送达罗克珊之手，并且巧妙地安排了两人的婚姻。谁知早就对罗克珊心怀不轨的军官见此情景愤恨难忍，将克里斯蒂调去了阿拉斯作战……