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。

In 1743, in the French countryside, a strange epidemic deserted the region. 200 years later, a young woman wakes curiously languid after a restless night. Her husband received a letter a few hours later asking him to go to a remote place for business, where he would have to spend the night. If he succeeds in reassuring his young wife, who has a presentiment of being separated for the first time from him, the first night spent in his host's house will topple everything.

本片又名《总统失踪记》，由法国国宝级的著名喜剧大师——路易·德·菲耐斯主演。他通过夸张的形体动作和表情，生动地刻画出了法国市民阶层的典型性格。
赛普提姆先生（路易·德·菲耐斯 Louis de Funès 饰）是一家高档法国餐厅的经理，虽然为人又自私多疑、狡猾多变。但在酒店管理上却确实精明能干，对待前来用餐的客人也十分热情，时刻遵守餐馆操守，服务守则。一次，总统在赛普提姆先生的饭店参加宴会中突然失踪了。所有人都急坏了，赛普提姆先生和大家一起处寻找总统。在寻找总统的过程中发生了一系列啼笑皆非的事情，原来总统是设计逃脱宴会，为自己找个假期！

In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friend's car from Naples to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".