sentences:  The film was one of the biggest box-office hits in Thailand at the time, earning 13 million baht, a record figure at the time.It gained international recognition at the 1981 Nantes Three Continents Festival, where it won the Golden Montgolfiere, sharing it with "They Don't Wear Black Tie" by Brazilian director Leon Hirszman.It was voted as one of the world's 360 classic movies by the Museum of the Moving Image in London, "Sight & Sound" magazine and film directors and critics worldwide in 1998.