In some scenes of the film, an old woman, clad entirely in black, is seen sitting at the back seat. No one ever talks to her, she plays no part in the film's plot, and she isn't listed in the end credits. Director Slobodan Sijan has allegedly said that she represents death, as well as the tragedy of the upcoming war. However, the film's screenwriter Dusan Kovacevic has said that: ''The old woman in black represents a part of Serbia which is completely isolated. She is an analogy of the old people who were left in some backwater villages by their families. There they live, day-by-day, accepting their fate, with little concern about the events in the world, and have created their own paradox of memory, habits and melancholy.''
In 1996, members of the Yugoslavian Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AFUN) voted this movie as the best Serbian movie made in the 1947-1995 period.
The entire film was shot in 24 days.
Nenad Kostic, who plays the young Gypsy singer/mouth harpist (credited as Muzikant II), became a bus driver in real life, which he still is (as of 2019).
Before the premiere, the movie was shown to the art council in Belgrade. The theater was full. During the projection, Slobodan Sijan was in shock, nobody in the audience, not even once, laughed.