Paris's The Gaumont Palace, in 1947, showed a special screening of this work that gave free admission to anyone who has either of the titles name.
When Jacques Becker won the Palme d'Or in Cannes, he was not very famous. At the beginning of the festival, a lot of photographers took pictures of André Lafargue, a critic, thinking he was Becker. When Becker won the award, many newspapers used those mistaken pictures.