Wissenswertes

One critic dourly noted that the ballerina Ludmilla Tcherina did rather less dancing in this movie than Sir Michael Redgrave did.

Finally given a DVD and Blu-ray release region 2 on August 2019 by Network DVD, fully restored in CinemaScope ratio.

John Schlesinger, better known as a director, can be spotted playing a uniformed soldier in a jeep.

Preferred casting was Bing Crosby as Alfred Westerman, Maurice Chevalier as Eisenstein, Orson Welles as Orlovsky and either Noël Coward or David Niven as Frank. All declined.

Sir Michael Redgrave, Anneliese Rothenberger, and Sir Anthony Quayle did their own singing. Everyone else was dubbed.