Director Lars-Eric Kjellgren wrote the script. It was treated by Kjellgren and Ingmar Bergman (uncredited).
Swedish media expected that Marianne Bengtsson would become Sweden's third Hollywood star, after Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman. Instead she left the movies and married Italian journalist Marino de Medici.
Nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival 1957.