 At the Moscow International Film Festival in 1971, it won a Golden Award, but lost to "Bilyy ptakh z chornoyu vidznakoyu" ("The White Bird Marked with Black").Nevertheless, it won at the Beaume Historic Film Festival in 1974, ahead of "El Cid".With a rating on 8.4 on Internet Movie Database, it is rated as the twentieth best historic film of all time.