 The original film was 107 minutes long and cost about 240,000 kroner to make, a very considerable sum of money at the time.It was filmed at Rana, Norway.The film cast stars Amund Rydland as Isak, Karen Poulsen as Inger, Ragna Wettergreen as Oline (Inger's relative), and Gunnar Sommerfeldt as Geissler.