José Luis García Sánchez didn't like the first draft of the screenplay when he was asked to direct the movie, but instead of writing a new one, what he did was taking the play to the set and try to recreate the different scenes as faithfully as possible.
The Spanish Church protested the scene where Ana Belén is nude in front of a church, and asked the producers for a theological reason to why the nudity was necessary.
Cristina Castaño's debut.