当贝多芬发现自己耳聋时，他周围一切本应发出巨大声响的事物或现象，像雷鸣、瀑布等都被处理成无声，从而加强了贝多芬本人的焦虑和痛苦心情。影片叙述贝多芬的一段爱情经历，中间穿插了贝多芬耳聋后创作、指挥交响音乐演奏的生活片段。

Peut-on vraiment s’appeler Rothchild et n’être qu’un malheureux clochard ? Il semble que oui. Mais la condition sera de courte durée. Un compère astucieux saura bientôt attirer sur ce seul nom mythique richesse et pouvoir.

In war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in love the girl of an enemy.

When one of their number tries to tear away the veil from the face of a woman of Morocco, five French tourists find themselves cursed by an Arabic sorcerer to die in a specified order before the next new moon appears - and one by one, in different ways, they begin to die as predicted...