Anecdotes

For more than a decade, this film held the box office record in Portugal, for a Portuguese film.

"Lugar do Morto" has a double meaning in Portuguese language: it means, literally, "the dead man's seat", but it also means "the passenger seat", the seat beside the driver's.

One of the few movies from director António-Pedro Vasconcelos not featuring his cameo.

Official submission of Portugal to the 1985's Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

The red Alfa Romeo Giulia Super driven by the newspaper man is actually 3 different cars. License plates DB-94-78, DB-94-79 and NO-50-23.