A Goat-Musician
6.3
The film makes fun of incompetent hack composers who replace real creativity with an unabashed compilation. The goat-composer completes work on a new work, the theme of which is suggested by the Donkey and the Ram. The author's concert of the composer is preceded by the performance of the Gray Wolf-musicologist. He admires the creation of the venerable Goat-fool. But when the animal orchestra performs a slightly modified song "Once upon a time there was a gray goat fool", the audience begins to leave their seats…
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Cast
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Georgi Millyar
Goat (voice, uncredited)
Known for
Father Frost
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
Sergei Martinson
Donkey (voice, uncredited)
Known for
Thumbelina
The Adventures of Mowgli
Georgiy Vitsin
First hedgehog (voice, uncredited)
Known for
Gentlemen of Fortune
Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross
Yuri Khrzhanovsky
Second hedgehog (voice, uncredited)
Known for
The Adventures of Mowgli
Cipollino
Rostislav Plyatt
Wolf (voice, uncredited)
Known for
Seventeen Moments of Spring
Boris Dyozhkin Director · Sergey Mikhalkov Screenplay Alexander Mosolov Composer
First release March 21, 1954 · Produced in Russia · Original title Козёл-музыкант
Production
Soyuzmultfilm
Production
Russia
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Original title
Козёл-музыкант
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · March 21, 1954
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No release date listed for United States.
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