Raden Ajeng Karina is of mixed-descent, born to a Dutch mother – who has since returned to the Netherlands – and Javanese father from Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat.

Carli, who had been trained as a documentary filmmaker and had made his feature film debut two years earlier with De Stem des Bloeds.

[a][2] This same poster gave the cast as including Jean de la Motte, W. Batten, Lucy Kay, Erna Zwartjes, and Pola du Moulin.

[2] An announcement in the Medan-based daily De Soematra Post, meanwhile, records all actors except Krohn as natives.

[3] Karina's Zelfopoffering was released in 1932,[4] having its premiere at Elita Theatre in Bandung and was attended by Central Priangan residen, B.H.