Trivia

Helena Ruzicková was considered for the part of Stepa, eventually played by Iva Janzurová.

Eduard Cupák was considered for the part of Pavel, eventually played by Petr Cepek.

Director Juraj Herz had to remove the opening scenes, in which officers enjoy themselves in a brothel and leave on horseback the next morning, with prostitutes waving at them from the windows.

When approving the finished film, the censors ordered to cut the scene where Stepa drags her seriously ill husband from the rocks on her back after he failed to commit suicide.

Iva Janzurová was nominated for the Best Actress in a Leading Role award at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.