As discussed on TCM's Noir Alley by host Eddie Muller in July 2021, a screening of the restored 35mm print of this film was held on behalf of the Film Noir Foundation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City in February 2016, and shockingly in attendance was 90 year-old Vassili Lambrinos, who, after years of living in various parts of the globe, was living just a few blocks from MoMA. Lambrinos had never seen the film on the big screen nor with an audience before that screening, having seen the film only in an editing room before then.
Despite accolades and positive reception upon its release in Argentina, the film was virtually unknown in the United States and a 35mm print was completely unavailable. In 2008, Fernando Martín Peña showed Film Noir Foundation President and TCM host Eddie Muller his own personal 16mm print of the film, and Muller and Pena undertook efforts to find and restore a 35mm print. As Muller discussed upon screening this film on TCM's Noir Alley in July of 2021, a film negative was found in poorly maintained storage in the basement of one of the film's producer's estates, with weeds growing through the ground and film canisters rusted shut. Miraculously, the restoration process was successful.