Unlike the caliph from the original tale, his cartoon counterpart is a fair-haired youth, but he has no facial hair.
In the original, the evil sorcerer does not touch the animals, but in the film he turns them into his servants, who are then disenchanted by the fairy after turning back from a salamander.
In the original, the caliph turns only into a stork. In the cartoon, before that, he turns first into a fish, and then into a spider. At the same time, the main character does not forget the magic word and returns to its previous state without any problems.