When Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman was asked to name eleven movies he had liked the most, he mentioned this movie as one of his all-time favorites.
The roles of Marta and Adam are performed by the real life married couple, Krystyna Janda and Andrzej Seweryn. Marysia, the little girl in the movie, is played by their biological daughter Maria Seweryn (four years old back then). Janda and Seweryn divorced in 1979, the year "The Conductor" movie wrapped.