The Best Film in the poll of the magazine "Soviet Screen" in 1960.
The DVD release was not authorized Inside the former USSR countries.
The movie ends with a quote by Mikhail Sholokhov: " I'd like to believe that this Russian, this man of unbreakable will, will stick it out, and that the boy will grow at his father's side into a man who can endure anything, overcome any obstacles, should his country ever call upon him to do so".