On 19 January 2007, the producers of the Berlin Film Festival announced that they would premiere the original color version of this movie. This version was previously thought to be lost.
Final film of Lilly Jacobsson.
Charles Desvaux of the town council in Paris has asked the prefect to ban the film with Asta Nielsen, According to him it is a "vulgar melodrama with a pathetic scenario. Apparently the director made a mistake of imagining a feminine Hamlet.
The idea that Hamlet was a woman comes from "The Mystery of Hamlet: An Attempt to Solve an Old Problem" by Edward Payson Vining, 1881.