On October 6, 1969, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Onassis was leaving a theater showing the film when she was confronted by paparazzi. She gave a photographer a judo flip in the confrontation.
This is widely considered the first mainstream film to openly show male full frontal nudity.
Olof Palme, who is interviewed in the film as a young cabinet minister, later became Prime Minister and was a major figure in Swedish and international politics in the 1970s and 1980s. He was often associated with left-wing causes including opposition to US involvement in Vietnam. Palme was shot to death on a Stockholm street in 1986, in a crime that has never been fully solved.
The interview with Martin Luther King was filmed in March 1966 when Dr. King was in Stockholm with Harry Belafonte to garner Swedish support for the American Civil Rights Movement.
The film reached American shores in 1968, testing American obscenity laws. In 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that the film was not obscene because of its educational context, leading to a surge in the production of sex films. They were often called "white coaters" because a doctor dressed in a white coat would introduce the graphic content, qualifying the film as "educational".
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