 Christensen was also chosen by the Venezuelan production to be director; Aguilar and Ortiz suggest that he was chosen to direct in large part because of his "audacity [...] when he introduced eroticism in the Argentine melodrama, especially in "Safo, historia de una pasión"".Filming locations include Caracas, Margarita, Costa de Barlovento, and Muchinga de la Guaira.The neighborhood of Muchinga had been abandoned shortly before the film was made, seen as a place of destitution, but was in part rebuilt for the film, with "El Nacional" reporting at the time that dozens of tradesmen were deployed to the coast.