Awards
- 1960 Cannes Film Festival - Special jury prize
- Bucharest Film Festival, 1960 - Golden Wolf for Best Film
- 5th San Francisco International Film Festival, 1960 - Golden Gate Award for Best Film and Golden Gate Award for Best Director
- BAFTA Award for Best Film from any Source, 1961
- Bodil Awards for Best European Film, 1961
- Nominated for Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, 1961 - Grigori Chukhrai, Valentin Yezhov
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