After its appearance, the film became for Soviet citizens a window into a beautiful life and into “abroadness” with its vices, and a semi-striptease with Svetlychnaya generally fought hard. In the film - typical Soviet citizens of the turn of the 60s and 70s with their fears and troubles, and still incredibly charming operatives - a charming episode when an operative, presenting the famous red ID, stopped the initiative of the public, demanding to remove a wall newspaper about Semyon Semyonych, suspected of insufficient compliance with the proper appearance of a Soviet person.
Before perestroika, Soviet television did not spoil citizens with such films, and each show was an event. A song about some island of bad luck in the 70s leaked into underground pioneer folklore (complete with famous sadistic rhymes like “children in the basement played in the Gestapo ...”), appearing very funny (without realizing the meaning) and almost forbidden, but rarely a pioneer could explain where it came from. In the coming time of media abundance, this film is already boring, I do not want to put a high rating.