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The movie was the biggest flop of Hungarian animation. Angry adults and crying children would storm out of theaters, and some cinemas reportedly began playing different films just to keep audiences seated. Critics were also divided. The biggest reasons for the bad reception were the highly abstract animation style and the presentation that resembled old-fashioned farcical comedies from the early 20th century. Certain defenders of the film also remarked that viewers were either too unsophisticated to appreciate the film's style and themes or they were uncomfortable with how it satirized their socialist lifestyle. Technical director Jenõ Koltai wrote a lengthy essay in Pannonia Studio's magazine analyzing the film's failure, reasoning that the mainstream audience was not ready for an animated movie with realistic, urban themes. The movie was mostly forgotten until the 2000s saw a resurgence in interest for Kovásznai's works. It is now seen as an obscure gem of Eastern European animation and a nostalgic time capsule of 70s middle-class culture. It mainly became a beloved cult favorite of 20 and 30-something Hungarians.

Though produced and animated at the Pannonia Film Studio, none of the main animators were employees of the establishment. Instead, Kovásznai rounded up his own team of young, more free-thinking animators. However, Pannonia's regular in-between animators did occasionally help out to finish the film on time.

The failure of the film lead to the Hungarian state only giving finances to Pannónia Animation Studio for projects that were less experimental and had a more general, mainstream appeal.

György Matolcsy Sr., head of the Pannonia Animation Studio at the time of its production, considered the picture the most innovative Hungarian feature film ever made.

Only feature film of artist-animator György Kovásznai. He died a few years after its release, during the production of his second full-length feature, a Hungarian-French joint project that would have adapted Voltaire's Candide into an animated movie. As a tribute to Kovásznai, the idea was made into the animated short The Adventures of Candide (2014), which was then expanded into the multi-episode adult animated series Candide (2018).