This was the first German movie made after World War II.
The world premiere took place just one day before the first sentences in the Nuremberg Trials were carried out, and ten war criminals were hanged.
In 1945, Hildegard Knef spent 3 months in a POW camp in Poland, while in the movie, her character Susanne Wallner is said to be returning from a concentration camp.
Shortly before the premiere, it was decided that leading actor Ernst 'Wilhelm Borchert' was not to be mentioned on posters and in the credits, since he had forged his forms of denazification. He had omitted that he had been a member of the NSDAP since 1933, but it later turned out his connection to the party was without further consequences.
In 2001, shortly before her death, a journalist asked Hildegard Knef to give him a list of her five favorite movies. This one was on it.