Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck (1953)

Arabian potter Muck is constantly pestered by the knaves in his city chasing him, at risk of breaking his delivery. Trapped in his workshop, he appeases them by telling his true story. Orphaned young without proper education, he looses his home to quarreling relatives and ventures after the elusive 'merchant of happiness' in the desert.

Following a cat, he finds himself trapped in the cat lady's ruin home, but escapes having stolen a pair of magical shoes enabling him to run like the wind, once he masters their use. He returns and is introduced at the silly sultan's court, where corrupt advisers rival for positions and the hand of princess Amarza, who is in love with a neighboring prince, hence resist being bareheaded to chief courtier Bayazid. A wager against the royal runner Murad wins Mach his position. Thus he must deliver a foppish war declaration to the prince's father, which is luckily prevented just in time, yet Muck is unfairly blamed and booted. He discovers magical figs which can cause a person to get viz. rid him of donkey ears, and teams up disguised with the prince to set things straight.