The picture's opening title card states: "Australia, 1962".
The film's "Silver City" title is a nick-name for a silver corrugated iron hostel dormitories immigration village in Australia during the 1960s.
According to 'The Australian Film and Television Companion', actress Megan Williams was the favorite for the lead female role of Nina which in the end was cast with Gosia Dobrowolska.
In 1984, the picture was nominated for eleven Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards including Best Film and ended up winning three gongs.
First and only ever cinema movie screenplay [to date, January 2015] worked-on by writer Thomas Keneally where it was not entirely based on his own material nor based on one of his own stories or novels.