Sent to jail for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean has every reason for hating humanity and embarking on a life of crime when he is released twenty years later. The gesture of a kindly bishop changes his perspective and he decides instead to live the life of a good and honest man. Through hard work over many years, Valjean becomes a successful industrialist and mayor of a small town, respected by all as a great benefactor. But everything he has achieved is suddenly lost when Inspector Javert, a former guard at the prison where he served, recognises Valjean and decides to arrest him for a minor offence he committed years ago. Valjean would have submitted to arrest had he not already made a promise to one of his employees, Fantine, just before she died. Moved by Fantine�s tragic story, Valjean has agreed to adopt her daughter Cosette, who is currently in the care of the unscrupulous innkeeper Th�nardier and his wife. To fulfil his promise, Valjean must flee from Javert and assume a new identity. Some years later, Valjean and Cosette have settled in Paris, at a time when an uprising against the restored monarchy is fermenting. A young revolutionary, Marius, falls in love with Cosette, but events conspire to keep them apart. Meanwhile, the stone-hearted Javert is not far away, and he is as intent as ever that Valjean be brought to justice...

The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.

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。

The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.