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Rock’n’Roll Wolf, also known as Mama, is a 1976 children’s musical film created as a coproduction between Romania Film, Mosfilm, and Ralux Film. It is based on the fairy tale of “The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats” and was simultaneously filmed in Romanian, Russian and English. We’ll be watching the English version, which is a Christmas classic here in Norway, despite it not being a Christmas movie.

My own interest in Rock’n’Roll Wolf comes from this anecdote I shared on Hexbear last Christmas,

Holy shit, how many Christmases ago was it that I turned on the TV and caught the very last minute of what looked to be a weird Eastern Bloc musical which was inexplicably in English. I got the movie’s last song stuck in my head but it was over before I managed to find out what the movie was. The identity of this weird-ass movie remained an unsolved mystery for years, but now, now I finally know! It was the 83-minute Romanian-Soviet-French musical Rock’n’Roll Wolf and the song I heard was “Mom” which plays just before the end credits. That’s the one! That’s the melody I remember with the tiny handful of lyrics I remember! Holy shit! Holy shit!

And here’s Rock’n’Roll Wolf’'s plot description on IMDb:

The Big Bad Wolf and his friends are plotting to kidnap and ransom Mrs. Rada the Goat’s children for a bag full of gold.

Viewers are advised that this is one of those musicals where the music practically never stops.

Content warnings and accessibility

Audio description: Not available.

Sign language: Not available.

Captions: Norwegian hardsubs, dialog only.

Language of audio: English.

Content warnings: All I can really say is that it’s got children in peril.

♫ Uniting nations at the speeeed of liiiiight ♫
[epic sax solo]
♫ Station of the '20s — TV☆3SIS! ♫