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A Goat-Musician

1954 · 10 mins

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…

Director: Boris Dyozhkin

Cast: Georgi Millyar, Sergei Martinson, Georgiy Vitsin, Yuri Khrzhanovsky, Rostislav Plyatt

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