 It occupies the 48th place on the "Critics' Top 250 Films" of the 2012 "Sight & Sound" poll, as well as 120th place on "Empire" magazine's list of the '500 greatest movies of all time'.It was selected to enter the list of the "100 Italian films to be saved".A subject of socio-political controversy, the film was not screened for five years in France; it was released in 1971.