Trivia

The film is based on the poem by the Ossetian poet Kosta Khetagurov.

The performer of the role of Fatima, Tamara Kokova, then still a student of GITIS, became the owner of the prize "For the Best Actress" at the All-Union Film Festival in Kiev (1959).

The film was shot in the village Okrokana of the Kazbegi municipality of Georgia.

The film was banned in Turkey.

The film was shot on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kosta Khetagurov.