This film was made by Jacques Overtoom. Gerrit van Dijk only did executive work. The premiere was in January 1978 in the Haarlem Filmhuis Het Melkwoud. A larger cinema was not allowed to show films with certain content, by order of the Minister of Justice, Dries van Agt. There was a lot of commotion about this, the film reinforced that. The Minister was invited to the screening but said that 'unfortunately' he was unable to attend.