 Bemberg was only able to make the film after President Raúl Alfonsín outlawed film censorship in 1982, making it a political statement as much as it is a romantic fiction.Despite the romantic plot led by the Camila and Ladislao Gutierrez, the Jesuit priest, the film is distinct for its unromantic end in the midst of the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas.The film cost US$370,000 to make.