[1] An adaptation of the novel Catsplay (Macskajáték) by István Örkény, the film was directed by Stephen Katz and written by Timothy Findley.
[2] The film stars Helen Burns as Bela Orban, a woman living in Budapest, Hungary, who is having a love affair with an opera singer (Jan Rubeš); meanwhile, her sister Giza (Doris Petrie) is living a wealthier but sterile life on the other side of the Iron Curtain in Germany.
[3] The cast also includes Frances Hyland, Moya Fenwick, Angela Fusco and Les Carlson.
[4] Burns also starred in stage productions of Catsplay, directed by Lynne Meadow and translated by Clara Gyorgyey,[5] for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play in 1978.
The film was broadcast by the CBC in March 1978 as an episode of its anthology series Front Row Centre.