In his autobiography,
René Lefèvre remembers this as his last film at the Neuilly studio. He hated the script and remembers that the German
Lee Parry "had none of the qualities that would have served the character, and made desperate efforts to find tears that she searched to the bottom of her stomach." (...) "Every day, comrade
Lee Parry, who, no doubt, had tapeworm, would feel bad if we didn't have lunch at exactly noon. She was careful to warn her partner that she was going to fall, and
Jean Murat had to stick her up to a seat. To save her the trouble, I'd bring the lady a folding seat as soon as my watch showed two minutes to noon. He also remembers the two-month shoot of the exteriors in Cairo, where they had to work in 67° C/152° F temperatures." "It was all pointless, but, by virtue of a Franco-German agreement, the film had to be made, and it was." He thinks that
Marcel Vandal no longer believed in it "because he didn't show his usual good humor."
