 The movie was shot and filmed in Nazi occupied Norway. It was early  in the war and the occupational forces were not as strict as they  became later in the war when the German political commissioner Josef  Terbovens "bullying tactics" (as Josef Goebbels described them) got  a much firmer grip on Norway. The lead actor Leif Juster (qv) was  later imprisoned by the Gestapo for mocking the occupational forces  on stage.