The film was commissioned for the tenth anniversary of East Germany's independence,[2] and the decision to begin the project was taken on the 5th Congress of the Socialist Unity Party, at July 1958.
[3] It was a musical comedy, one of the pictures which authors Antonin and Mira Liehm considered as an attempt by DEFA to balance the effects its heavily ideological works had on the public.
[4] Although it was light-hearted, director Günter Reisch emphasized the happiness experienced by the citizens in the socialist system and the importance of the chemical plants' development - one of them served as the setting for the plot.
[3] The Liehms considered it as one of "the two smoothest" among the "poorly crafted, simple minded" East German comedies of the late 1950s, along its 1960 sequel New Year's Eve Punch.
[4] Ralf Schenk wrote that the film was an attempt to create comedy combined with "slogans praising the Socialist society and the qualities of chemical ingredients.