Awards and Recognition
- The film won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980, and was chosen to participate in the International Film Exchange.
- The film was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival (1980).
- Vera Alentova has been named as the best USSR actress according to a poll by journal "Sovetskij Ekran" (1980).
- In 1981 it was awarded the USSR State Prize.
- US President Ronald Reagan watched the film several times prior to his meetings with the President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, in order to gain a better understanding of the "Russian soul".
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