Asked about her nude scenes in this movie, Nastassja Kinski said she did them at the director's request. "He described the girl in the movie to me as being young with nothing to hide, and she is in love and doesn't wear anything when she has breakfast and talks with her lover. All this made sense to me, so I said okay. And then Playboy took the picture without my saying yes and showed it all over the world. Sometimes they even clipped Mastroianni off. I felt awful. I saw how other people reacted to nudity, and that made me feel bad - not that I did it, but that they were exploiting Nastassia nude, saying here you can have her, any magazine and anybody can look at her. And I don't know any of those people who look at me, they look at me, they look at me, they throw me in the toilet in the rubbish. Dirty kind of men, I don't know. That's upsetting. Today I think I shouldn't have done it, but still, in context, it is part of the girl's character. I wasn't complexed about it, I wasn't even thinking if it was right or wrong. I saw my parents go about nude from the time I was a baby. That's how I grew up. I don't want to sound stupid and innocent and say, 'Oh, I didn't think it was bad.' I guess I have to eat my soup. Today, if a director asked me to do nude scenes, I would say that I wanted artistic control and put it in the contract. I never did nude scenes because I thought it was cute," she said.
Ania Pieroni's debut.
Alberto Lattuada: the homeless man begging for a cigarette while Giulio is trying to make a phone call.