Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (2009)

Farmer Georg, his second wife Martha, and his daughter Lissi live on a small farm. Their hired hand, Johann, who also lives on the farm, is in love with Lissi, but nobody else knows this. The farm is also home to a feeble old donkey, a blind dog, a tired cat, and a vain old rooster. One day, when Georg plans to marry Lissi off to the farmer Hans Sittler in order to get his fields, Lissi tells her father and stepmother that she loves Johann. In response, her stepmother plans to sell the hired hand to her cousin Adam in Bremen, who is going away to sea for at least a year. Since the four animals are so old, the stepmother wants to turn them into soup and sausages. While the stepmother locks Lissi in the attic and forces Johann to go to sea, the animals, knowing what fate awaits them, decide to walk to Bremen and become town musicians there. Lissi escapes to go looking for Johann. On his way to Bremen, Johann is captured by robbers, who force him to work for them. On her way to Bremen, Lissi meets the animals. She and the animals continue on together. They have no idea that they are being followed by the farmer and his wife, as well as by the knacker, who was supposed to turn the donkey into sausage. The knacker catches up with the fugitives and tries to abduct the donkey, but Lissi and the animals drive him away. On their way, Lissi and the animals come across the robbers’ house. The animals manage to scare the robbers away with their dreadful singing. Lissi also manages to free Johann, whom the robbers have tied up because he tried to escape. Meanwhile, the farmer and his wife are abducted by the same robbers and forced to keep watch over the robbers’ house. There, the animals mistake them for robbers and chase them away. While Lissi and Johann are able to marry using the robbers’ gold, Hans Sittler marries Suse, the rich farmer’s daughter. The animals start practicing their singing and delight the guests at the wedding, which takes place in Bremen, with a song that tells their story.