A very big box-office flop; Claude Chabrol later claimed that the new directors of the French New Wave got their chance because its failure convinced several big French producers that inexpensive films with new talent might have a better chance of success.
Won the Best Film prize from the National Arts Foundation of Argentina in March of 1959.
Jacques Deray, who was assistant director on the set, said that Pierre Brasseur was sometimes hard to find because he hid in may places to drink local wine. And Deray also told that Melina Mercouri could not bear Gina Lollobrigida. But they both had no scenes together.
Censorship visas : 1) # 20153 (France) 2) # 28649 (Italy) dated February 11th 1959.
Both Carroll Baker and Scilla Gabel had been contacted to play Marietta's part.