In the end of the film, alcoholic actor quotes from Shakespeare's Hamlet: 'To die, to sleep - No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to?'
Additional awards:
- Second Prize at the International Film Festival (USA, 1937)
- Movie Times Award (Japan, 1937).
The first film to win the newly created Prix Louis Delluc, the selection of several dozen film critics for the best French production of the year.
Nathalie Alexeeff's debut.
Annie Ceres's debut.