In 1976, for the first time since the German occupation, a French film was seized and its original negative burnt (though there are reports of video copies surfacing in the 1980s). The film was denounced on 15 October 1976 by two major family associations (for its apology of vice) and condemned to be burnt on the following day. According to the "specialists" at the time, this film did not present more obscenity and bad taste than the films of the same kind. But for the plaintiffs, it was a question of making an example, and they made a martyr of it.