The movie aired the season 1971-1972, and was the top selling ticket that year among 90 movies.
The movie Ti ekanes ston polemo Thanasi (1971) (What did you do at the war Thanassis?) won three awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival (artistic film, and a script Actor). The film was applauded at 12o Thessaloniki Film Festival 1971, Thanasis Vengos ( proclaimed the face of the festival and after the projection of the excited fans raised triumphantly in his hands and carried him out of the Festival.
The movie aired during a cruel dictatorship in Greece (1967-1974) and even if placed at the time of German occupation in Greece at the WW2, the parallels with the dictatorship was apparent. For that the Greek people embraced the movie and was a kind of resistance to them.
The actor of the movie Ti ekanes ston polemo Thanasi (1971) (What did you do at the war Thanassis?), Thanasis Vengos almost every time used his real name to his films characters and the same persona, victim, kind-hearted, and even innocent little man constantly running.
The movie was screened during 1971-1972 and sold 640,471 tickets. It came 1st out of 90 movies.