Wissenswertes

The cast includes two acting Oscar winners, Gene Hackman, and Eileen Heckart, and two acting Oscar nominees, Liv Ullmann, and Susan Tyrrell. Ullmann, however, has won an honorary Oscar for her body of work.

Before DVD and Blu-ray, this film was one of the hardest Gene Hackman movies to find.

Used to being his own cinematographer on the earlier films he had made in Sweden, director Jan Troell was disappointed that when now shooting a film for a Hollywood studio he was required by union regulations to hire a separate person to man the camera.

Eileen Heckart and Frank Cady played a very different married couple 18 years earlier in Böse Saat (1956).

Zandys Braut (1974) was based on the 1942 novel by Lillian Bos Ross "The Stranger."