And what kind of opposition to the film are you talking about at all? In 1981 he was awarded the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR so that and his Awards
San Sebastian Film Festival (1979) - the main prize Golden Shell and the FIPRESCI Prize
Venice Film Festival (1979) - Italian Journalists Award for Best Actor (Eugene Leonov) and FIPRESCI Prize
All-Union Film Festival in Dushanbe (1980) - the main prize
Shamrousse International Comedy Film Festival (1980) - Grand Prize
Berlin Film Festival (1980) - prize of the international evangelical jury - special recommendation (Forum program)
IFF comedy films in Gabrov (1981) - special prize;
State Prize of the RSFSR named after the Vasiliev brothers (1981)
and and there was no need to invent any problems with Danelia's employment, the film was praised very much in the USSR.