Franz Herterich who plays the part of the Burgtheaterdirektor really was director of the actual Burgtheater from 1923 through 1930.

The plot is loosely based on "Faust" by Johann Wolfgang Goethe.

Interior-shots were taken in the actual Burgtheater during the theater's summer-break of 1936.

Werner Krauss never played the part of Faust at the Burgtheater, neither in part one nor part two (scenes of which are featured in the film).

Willy Eichberger actually launched his career at the Burgtheater in Vienna (under the pseudonym Willy Simon), therefore the character of struggling actor Josef Rainer wasn't foreign to him, which he often stated in numerous interviews.