This was supposed to be Hildegard Knef's on-screen debut, but her role in this film didn't make it into the final version.
The movie's premiere was on the 3rd May 1944 in Zwickau, Saxony, the birth town of Robert Schumann.
According to director Harald Braun's memory Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels was furious about this movie. He wished to have more movies about the hard times or rather movies that were related to the front-line duty and said that it is bad that movies like those are not produced anymore. He called the movie "plum soft crap". Nevertheless the movie was released and received predicate "artistically valuable".
Originally, the film was going to star Zarah Leander as Clara Schumann, and movie posters were even made. But Leander fled to Sweden due to the war, and her role was recast.
Final film of Leni Sponholz.