Peter Naumann moves to the Federal Republic, but there he finds only unemployment and eventually joins the French Foreign Legion.

[1][2] Three directors - Slatan Dudow, Richard Groschopp and Kurt Maetzig - were instructed by Socialist Unity Party of Germany to work on the film.

[3] East German cinema expert Joshua Feinstein wrote that The Benthin Family "...seems to have been an unmitigated disaster.

"[5] At 1952, the censure demanded that a scene in which a drunk worker appeared be removed before the film was allowed to be re-screened, since it did not comply with "depicting independent, intelligent members of the proletariat".

[2] The German Film Lexicon defined The Benthin Family as a "SED-commissioned agitation thriller with simplistic good-versus-evil plot... but interesting as a Cold War relic.