The last silent film produced in the USSR.
Khmyr's dream sequence was originally meant to be in color and was in fact originally filmed in color, a first for the studio Mosfilm. The footage was, however, not included in the finished film because its quality was deemed unacceptable.
The production reportedly cost 350,000 Soviet rubles (approximately 281,000 US dollars in 1934). When compared, for instance, with Aleksandr Dovzhenko's Aerograd (1935), whose production was budgeted at 1,000,000 Soviet rubles, this amount is relatively small for a Soviet film of that era.
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