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A Goat-Musician

1954

10 minutes

Animation

Overview

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…

Top Cast

Georgi Millyar headshot

Georgi Millyar

Goat (voice, uncredited)

Sergei Martinson headshot

Sergei Martinson

Donkey (voice, uncredited)

Georgiy Vitsin headshot

Georgiy Vitsin

First hedgehog (voice, uncredited)

Yuri Khrzhanovsky headshot

Yuri Khrzhanovsky

Second hedgehog (voice, uncredited)

Rostislav Plyatt headshot

Rostislav Plyatt

Wolf (voice, uncredited)