Laota said a paragraph about the film in an interview: "After the filming, many colleagues and people in the film committee gave very high evaluations of the film, I was very surprised, because even I didn't know about the film. What exactly was made, the film was quickly hidden by the authorities, and it was never shown in the Soviet Union, because they thought the film was anti-historical, which is a completely wrong accusation, we try to restore the film as much as possible. In the real situation of the times, I was considered by the authorities to be anti-Russian.”,
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