Coming of age story of the headstrong girl Ilse Macket.
Linda Joy is English like her character Nellie but had to use a fake accent due to growing up in Austria and being a fluent German speaker.
Emily Reuer, who plays main character Ilse's stepmother Anne and was the real-life partner of director Helmuth Ashley, died shortly after filming was completed.
Based on Emmy von Rhoden's eponymous novel and its sequel, "Trotzkopfs Brautzeit", written by her daughter Else Wildhagen.