The film was shown at the Venice film festival in 1972 and was immediately banned in Yugoslavia afterwards.
Underwent a 4K digital restoration from the Croatian Cinematheque's 35mm copy in 2023 at Teleking and 001 Studios in Ljubljana, supervised by original cinematographer Karpo Acimovic-Godina, as a project from the Slovenian and Croatian Cinematheques, Film Center Sarajevo and the Austrian Film Museum through a grant awarded by the Association of European Cinematheques, with support from Slovenia's Ministry of Culture.