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玛丽（珍妮弗·琼斯 Jennifer Jones 饰）在意大利度假时邂逅了名为乔班尼（蒙哥马利·克利夫特 Montgomery Clift 饰）的男子，两人之间相互吸引，很快就走到了一起，相互陪伴度过了快乐的两天。然而，快乐的日子都是短暂的，玛丽即将离开意大利前往巴黎，乔班尼劝说玛丽留下来，留在他的身边，可是固执的玛丽却去意已决，这让乔班尼非常的愤怒，他失手打了玛丽。　　悲伤的玛丽准备搭上前往巴黎的火车，就在火车快要开动的时候，乔班尼出现了，他不顾危险穿越轨道来到玛丽的身边，他的举动感动了玛丽，两人重修旧好。虽然错过了这一班火车，但下一班火车很快就来了，留给两人的时间越来越短了。

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'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.

马切罗（马塞洛•马斯楚安尼 Marcello Mastroianni 饰）是某杂志的专栏记者，他曾试图成为一名作家但是事与愿违，只得终日为明星绯闻奔忙。马切罗经常出席一些社会名流的交际酒会，于是他暗自和摄影师勾搭，设计拍摄明星隐私然后公诸于众。马切罗有一个女友元玛，在送 她回家的途中，搭乘了一位妓院老鸨，后者对他讲述了很多风月场中的轶事，这让他对名利场更加厌恶。在基督教的某个仪式上，一位从美国来的名模总是对着媒体搔首弄姿，后来马切罗的批评家朋友斯泰纳一针见血指出了她的虚伪之处，这让他逐渐认清了上流社会的腐朽，并开始重新审视自己的生活。他发现自己并不热衷奢华的生活，而且对于那个自以为是的元玛也并不满意，并进行了我行我素的反抗……