Ménilmontant takes its title from the working-class district of Paris of the same name.
According to the November 15, 1926 issue of Cinéa - Ciné Pour Tous, Joseph Faivre wrote intertitles for the Belgian release of the film, although it had been specifically advertised in France as a film without any titles.
Underwent a restoration in 2022 by Lobster Films based on the tinted nitrate copy of the original edit belonging to the British Film Institute, with one missing shot taken from a nitrate copy at the Cinémathèque Française.