It won the Golden Bear award at the 1987 Berlin Film Festival. It is the 2nd Russian film to be crowned best film in Berlin, after The Ascent (1977).
The film was shelved for 7 years after censorship scrutiny, likely for two reasons: It presented one disaffected Jewish writer character who wanted to emigrate to achieve creative freedom and another writer, the official playwright, who doubted the value of his work and the overall worth of the literary and cultural community.
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