The photographer who takes the family picture in the end of the movie is 'Jose Clemente Pozenato', the author of the novel which the movie was based.
First Brazilian film to be submitted to the Oscars after an absence of six years without other submissions, due to the lack of films being made in the period.
Official submission of Brazil to the 1996's Oscars in the best foreign language film category.
In 1996, the year after the release of O Quatrilho, Patricia Pillar and Gloria Pires would star again together, this time in the soap opera O Rei do Gado, a great success on Brazilian television. Pillar played Luana, a landless woman who discovers she is Marieta, heir to a large landowner. Pires played Rafaela, a scammer who tries to impersonate Marieta.