This film was made and released about 63 years after its source novel 'Alsino' by Chilean writer Pedro Prado was first published in 1920.
Final film of Cuban cinematographer Jorge Herrera who died from a brain hemorrhage during production.
The film was Academy Award nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. The picture, a Latin American co-production, was the first film to be Oscar nominated for the countries of Costa Rica, Cuba, and Nicaragua, though for Academy rules, this was classified as a Nicaraguan feature film.
First fictional feature film produced in Nicaragua during the socialist period.
This film won the Golden Medal at the Moscow International Film Festival.