Based on the fairy tale of Wilhelm Hauff "Little Muck" (1825).
In the cartoon sounds a few songs that have received wide popularity: The first song of Little Muck. The song of the old woman-catwoman ("From the sound of" meow "I melt and melt ..."). The song of cats ("We are the chosen creatures, we are the cats ..."). The second song of Little Muck. Padishah song.
In the film, all in poetic form, and in the original - in prose.
There are no scenes with treacherous courtiers and a magic wand that extracts treasures.
In the original, Agavtsi invited neighbors' cats for lunch, but in the film this is not the case.