Was the highest grossing non-American movie in Hungary in the year 1980.
Originally banned by the Peruvian government, which applied diplomatic pressure to extend the ban to most of the Spanish-speaking world. Writer and co-director Mario Vargas Llosa, who was accused by the government-controlled press of being a "known defender of prostitutes," declared to the New York Times that the Paramount subsidiary in charge of the film's international distribution had decided not to offer the film to other countries "in order not to suffer reprisals."