Jorge Sanz was cast as Víctor. One week into shooting, director Pedro Almodóvar replaced him with Liberto Rabal.
Adapted from the novel "Live Flesh" by Ruth Rendell. The book won the 1986 Gold Dagger, awarded by the UK Crime Writers' Association for the best crime novel of the year.
The movie begins in January 1970, the day when Francoist dictatorship declared the Exception Status. Actually, it was in January 1969.