Greece's official submission to the 1978's Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category.
Kostas Kazakos and Irene Papas were co-stars both in this film, Iphigenia (1977), and another film 15 years earlier, Electra (1962), both directed by Michael Cacoyannis and each with a score by Mikis Theodorakis. Kazakos and Papas would die a day apart, on September 13 and 14, 2022, at the respective ages of 87 and 96. Composer Theodorakis had died just over a year before, also at age 96, and on the day before Papas's 95th birthday.
Part of the film was shot at the ruins of Mycenae which dates to the Bronze Age.
The movie sold 61,803 tickets. It came in 2nd out of 17 movies.