One of the first films shot in the newly created EFA studios in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Only film directed by screenwriter Edmundo Guibourg.
García Lorca's original drama premiered on March 8, 1933 at the Beatriz Theater in Madrid by the Company of Josefina Díaz and Manuel Collado and scenery by Santiago Ontañón.
Eloísa Cañizares's debut.