The film led the Soviet box office in 1981, with 47.5 million spectators.
This film was financed and filmed primarily in the Soviet Union of Leonid Brezhnev. As such, feature film production was regulated or restricted, and this film was no exception. The film was approved and largely financed by the government, one of the last major films to be produced and released under the Brezhnev regime, since Brezhnev was already in very poor health, and would die little more than 16 months after the Soviet release, and even before the film's release in many countries around the world. The Soviet Union was itself defunct only about 8 years later.
Final film of Curd Jürgens.