52 seconds of this film were cut by the South African Publications Control Board in a scene dealing with who has a right to be called an Afrikaaner if they were not white.
South Africa's first political thriller, it questioned the boundaries of Afrikaans identity, which caused problems with the government censors.
The firebrand writer Anton du Toit is based on two very controversial South African novelists of the period - Breyten Breytenbach and Etienne Leroux.