In 1951 there was a 10 month halt in the Swedish film industry, as the production companies had declared a ban on filming in protest against the steep entertainment tax. As he couldn't make a proper new film, Hasse Ekman made this instead.
Clips from no less than 17 previous Hasse Ekman films edited together to form a new story, with Ekman himself as narrator and a newly shot prologue.
The four minute prologue takes place in the year 2251 and was shot in color, a first for Hasse Ekman.
In the prologue it's mentioned that the audience of the 1940s lived in a time of torment, crisis, sin, passion, thirst, desire (in Swedish: hets, kris, synd, lidelse, törst, begär) - this is a reference to six Swedish films of the 1940s: Torment (1944), Crisis (1946), Synd (1948), Lidelse (1945), Thirst (1949), Begär (1946). The tagline on the theatrical poster also makes this reference.
The first and last names of the actors were deliberately mixed up on the theatrical poster, for example it says "Inga Henning", "Eva Wigert" and "Sonja Tidblad", with the real names being Inga Tidblad, Eva Henning and Sonja Wigert.