This is a screen version of Sergey Mikhalkov's eponymous poem based on comic Russian folk tales.
In the same year was released the sequel to the animation "The Greedy Rich Man", also filmed by one of the works of Sergey Mikhalkov and having the same success.
Until the mid-1990s, Studio PRO Video released this animated film on VHS.
In the 2000s, the animated film was repeatedly reprinted on DVD in collections of cartoons: "13 stories".