At around 30 minutes and 10 seconds into the film a young peasant is shown reading the newspaper Scanteia. The newspaper Scanteia (The Spark) was the official daily of the Romanian Communist Party since 1931.
This film's main topic is the agricultural collectivization taking place in Romania during early socialist times.The agricultural collectivization was a initiative inspired by socialism by which individual land-owning peasants pooled their respective lands and resources into a single unit.This single common unit was jointly owned and farmed.The resulting crops would equally be divided between peasants.The surplus or a fixed annual quota would go to the state in return for state's assistance with agricultural machinery, seed, pesticides and irrigation works.
Film debut for Liviu Ciulei as an actor.
Film is based on the novel "June Nights" by Romanian novelist Petru Dumitriu.