A Goat-Musician

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…

• Sergey MikhalkovScreenplay
• Boris DyozhkinDirector
• Alexander MosolovOriginal Music Composer

• Georgi MillyarGoat (voice, uncredited)
• Sergei MartinsonDonkey (voice, uncredited)
• Georgiy VitsinFirst hedgehog (voice, uncredited)
• Yuri KhrzhanovskySecond hedgehog (voice, uncredited)
• Rostislav PlyattWolf (voice, uncredited)