The movie was screened during 1958-1959 and sold 9,565 tickets. It came 36th out of 51 movies.
The film is loosely based on the life of the Greek poet Georgios Drossinis (1859-1951). He was one of the main writers of the "New Athenian School", a generation of writers that came of age in the 1880s. As with the other writers of this loosely-defined group, he was mainly influenced by Parnassianism and Symbolism.