Trivia

Filming on the dunes of Restinga de Marambaia was troublesome, because they were almost surrounded by the sea and the story was set in a desert.

The Sheikh of Agadir marked the debut of Mário Lago on TV Globo. Communist assumed, the actor had to bypass the resistance of Gloria Magadan to be admitted in the novel and live the Nazi colonel Otto von Lucken. The Cuban author was anti-Castro. Mário Lago was only kept in the cast at the insistence of Walter Clark. The actor Sebastião Vasconcelos, in turn, was eliminated from the plot because Magadan found him similar to Fidel Castro. His character was one of the victims of the murderous Rat. The novel by Glória Magadan was one of the most representative of the line cover and sword trodden by the transmitter in the years 1960.

The actors who lived the Nazi characters gained public dislike. Emiliano Queiroz was attacked by an indignant spectator at a department store in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, a day after the scene where his villain assassinated Marcel, the character of Cláudio Marzo. TV Globo hosted a contest to encourage viewers to discover the identity of the killer character, but no one was right. Numerous times a day, the broadcaster conveyed the question, "Who is the killer?" The Rato was the Arab princess Eden of Bassora, played by Marieta Severus, then 19, in her first novel role. After strangling the victims, the Rat left a pair of black gloves beside the corpse.