What Is a Man Without a Moustache? does not go bankrupt. Under the local bishop's (Ivica Vidović) threat of relocation if the funds aren't raised, Father Stipan is torn between choosing to accept Tatjana's money to be given to the church and choosing Tatjana's love. "What Is a Man Without a Moustache?" was commercially released in Croatia on July 23, 2005, and was screened domestically and abroad during 2005 and 2006 at several film festivals including the Pula Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival and International Thessaloniki Film Festival. Distributed in the United States by Doors Art Foundation, the film had limited theatrical release in the US, premiering
What Is a Man Without a Moustache? Times" had also expressed opinions of a divided nature. He called the film "pleasant if inconsequential", offered an opinion that it contains "good-natured sensibility" and a "slightly fabulous tone" while still feeling like "magic realism, without the magic", and concluded his review by stating that "the pleasant pointless of it all is laced with a tantalizing tease of allegory suggested by the dialectical twins and the strain of mellow nationalism in the dialogue." Reviewing the film for "TV Guide", Maitland McDonagh awarded the film three stars out of four calling it "sardonic" and "absurdist". What Is a Man Without a