The Town Musicians of Bremen (1959)

"The Town Musicians of Bremen" is a 1959 Family movie directed by Rainer Geis and starring by Peter Thom, Max Bößl. The story has an old donkey resolving to break away from the unbearable hardships of working for a fat miller (Alfred Pongratz). By and by, he recruits three more unsatisfied animals and convinces them to accompany him on his way to Bremen where they want to become musicians. Fighting off some robbers in a forest house then becomes an important part of the story.