[2] When the movie director and production company finalized the "ideological and artistic conception", the scenario was approved by the State Committee on Culture and the Arts on 8 March 1974.
The gun was given to the actor Mircea Diaconu, by the Capitan of the security services, only for the moment when the related scene was shot and after that he took it back.
[2] When Caratase is saying his final monologue, the actor is disguised as Hitler and is satirizing the fascist spirit, and then, he is taken backstage.
"[2] For the first time in Socialist Romania, a Romanian king appeared in the movie; Sergiu Nicolaescu found this insulting.
The lyrics were written by Ion Vasilescu and Mișu Iancu, the songs being played by Carmen Berbecaru and Tricy Abramovici.