The Ice Palace was 16 meters high and it took 4 weeks to build. Because the shootings where delayed and the temperature increased, it started melting and it had to be rebuilt again when the weather was cold enough to maintain it.
Leni Riefenstahl directed the flower-filled springtime scenes in Interlaken as well as the scenes of the nighttime rescue party searching with their flares, when Dr.Fanck was unavailable for both.
The name of Riefenstahl's dancer character, Diotima, had an association with classical Greek philosophy.She was a priestess who was supposed to have taught Socrates, and Plato makes her a character in his dialogue The Symposium in which she expounds on the nature of true love.
Leontine Sagan's debut.
At the end a caption reads that loyalty was the highest virtue of a person. The motto of the German SS was, "meine ehre heist treue" or My Honor is Loyalty. A virtue taken to an extreme degree.