Having been deemed too cryptic, and thus carrying the potential to be read in unpredictable and uncontrollable ways, this film was immediately suppressed from screenings, and the director was prohibited to make films until 1972. Only in 1990 "The attached balloon" was rediscovered and rated as one of the masterpieces of Bulgarian cinema.
The character of the young girl is not present in Radichkov's story from which the film is based. This silent, barefoot, helpless character in his confused escape was an allegory of the dissenting man, a sort of earthly projection of the free-flowing balloon. Through this character, especially in the scene where she fell into a pit and is surrounded by ferocious dogs barking at her, the director had expressed her sense of persecution and despair that she was experiencing at the time.
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