Eva Bosáková, the gymnast featured in the documentary-side of the film, is credited for being the first woman gymnast to compete a cartwheel on the balance beam (at the 1956 Olympics).
By the early 1960s, Czechoslovakia (now separately Czech Republic and Slovakia) experienced an impressive output of radical, experimental avant-garde cinema, known as the Czech New Wave. At the head of this prolific film era were Jirí Menzel, Jan Nemec, Milos Forman and Vera Chytilová.
Von etwas anderem (1963) intersperses two separate narratives---one following Vera, a fictional housewife living in Czechoslovakia, and another following Eva, an Olympic gymnast played by real-life Olympic gold medalist Eva Bosáková.