Premiere scheduled on 5th September 1939. As the war broke on Sept. 1st, the city was being bombed - the entrance hall to the cinema was filled with the corpses, victims of the German air raid, while the walls were still adorned with movie posters and photos - as describes by the eyewitness, the director
Wanda Jakubowska. One of the people who saw a completed copy was its writer,
Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz