Instead of waiting for the shooting and editing to be completed, before writing the music (as normally happens) the composer Honneger went into the countryside for two months with the crew and worked on the score in connection with the filming.
The village of Aubignane was just a film set built in the hills near the town of Aubagne. Some of the structures can still be visible but most of them (including the village church) are now gone. It is said that the faux church looked so realistic when it was constructed that a nearby priest wanted to offer a mass there.
October 1937, Paris: President of the Republic, Albert Lebrun was at the Gala evening for Regain, at the Marignan cinema, for Frances' war orphans.