 The movie was shot in Venice during what is known in History as the  Republic of Salò (when Mussolini was deposed and the country  occupied by the Germans) and when all cinematic activity was  transferred north, as Italys main studio facilities (Cinecittà)  were situated in Rome, which was occupied. It is very difficult  nowadays to find any information about any of the films produced  during the Republic of Salò and it is virtually impossible to find  any prints at all. Most of the documentation available about Italian  cinema also seems to exclude these films on purpose; most critics  even dismiss the fact that any cinematic activity even took place in  Venice during the last years of the war. It is clear that this  particularly difficult period has always been looked at from a  political point of view and the result is that political debates  over the years have simply erased over twenty films. It is probably  true that most of the personnel who worked in Venice in 1944