Variety

by Hans Hoehn ''... Zilnik, who studies law, is a clever, intelligent, and compromiseless young filmmaker, already proved via a series of documentaries. His feature is a drastic offbeater of political caliber, extremely self-critical a per the communist outlooks upon life. It contains shocking ingredients but despite  the fact  that there is much dirt (shabbily-dressed people, the poverty, and the many ugly sequences), on the screen, it is still a sympathetic film.  The language is very outspoken, often vulgar, and, in fact, no matters are minced. But despite this, this wild and provocative film has charm...  Film is remarkably compromiseless and speaks for the artistic freedom in Yugoslavia that the film's making (already released there) was tolerated in that communist country... Film makes a plea for a sort of a permanent revolution, but also makes plausible that it is senseless to support the 'unreal' revolutionaries. It indicates that there is something wrong with a world which has seen thousands of wars but only five or six genuine revolutions.''