The film was a major hit when it was released in Germany in 1930. Five of the people who worked on the film went on to direct films in Hollywood: Curt Siodmak, his brother Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinnemann, and Billy Wilder.
According to co-writer Billy Wilder, the filmmakers decided to make the subject of the film a Sunday, as they all had other jobs during the week, and filming on Sundays would give them more time to shoot.
The film's original negatives are lost, as is any print of the original complete version of the film, which had a length of 2014 meters. In 1998 the EYE Film Institute in the Netherlands restored the film based primarily on a 1615-meter copy in their archives with missing scenes added from copies belonging to the Belgian, Swiss, and Italian cinematheques and recreated German intertitles for a final length of 1839 meters. This restoration was given a 2K scan by the Institute in 2010, which was then reworked and remastered by ARRI Berlin in 2014, under the supervision of the German cinematheque.
Wolfgang later became a West German diplomat, and Christl later won a contest as Miss Spain.
In 2011 Criterion Collection released this film on DVD and BluRay with an incorrect screen credit for Moriz Seeler in the liner notes of the supplemental booklet, as well as online. In 2019 Criterion corrected the erroneous credit of Lighting Technician to be replaced with the appropriate screen credit of Producer on both Criterion's website as well as in all future booklets printed for its release of the film. To further confuse the history of those involved with the making ofnm0623873 the film, Yeol Rin Culture Center of Korea also released a DVD version of it in 2011 that included additional screen credit errors, such as "a film by Elia Suleiman", "art direction by Moritz Seder" and switching alleged financier Heinrich Nebenzahl's name for his son [xxxxx] as Producer. The fact is that Elia Suleiman was born 30 years after the film was made, there is NOT a person associated with it named Moritz Seder and neither Heinrich Nebenzahl and Seymour Nebenzal of Nero-Film produced it, but rather allegedly financed a portion of it.