Filmed on location at the NARVA light bulb factory in Berlin.
The original screenplay by Gabriele Kotte had been circulating for some time when DEFA General Director Hans-Dieter Mäde approached Iris Gusner about directing the film. Gusner agreed on condition that she could adapt and update the screenplay.
Director Iris Gusner spent a year between high school working on the assembly line in a women's brigade at a wood-processing factory in Leipzig. That experience informed her adaption of this film.