Final film of Rafael de Carvalho. He passed away three years before the film's release. At the end credits there's a dedicatee on him.
José Dumont and Rafael de Carvalho previously appeared in O Homem que Virou Suco (1980), which contains a similar thematic of a man from Brazilian Northeast region who moves down to São Paulo and gets confused as a criminal. Basically, Dumont plays the same role on both films. Director of this film, Denoy de Oliveira appeared as an actor in the other.