 The festive Austrian premiere followed on 10 October 1941 at the Viennese "Scala-Kino" in the presence of "Gauleiter" Baldur von Schirach, the premiere in Berlin on 23 October 1941 simultaneously at the "Ufa-Palast am Zoo" and the "Ufa-Theater Wagnitzstraße".The film grossed 4.9 million Reichsmark, thereby below expectation.Nevertheless, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels in his diary referred to Wessely's performance in the prison scene as "the best ever filmed".