After the three-part film was screened for the censors twice in 1967, the film was denied a theatrical release. The segment directed by Genrikh Gabai (Motria) was aired on TV two years later. The segments directed by Andrei Smirnov (Angel) and Larissa Shepitko (Homeland of Electricity) would not be shown again until twenty years later, under the "glasnost" policy of Gorbachev.