One of the people shown repeatedly during the overture is Alootook Ipellie, one of Canada's best-known Inuit artists and poets. Ipellie was attending a meeting of the International Inuit Circumpolar Conference in Stockholm during the production, and was picked off the street because of his unusual features.
Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Sven Nykvist and Ingmar Bergman can all be seen in the audience during the Overture.
The film's soundtrack is the first ever recorded in stereo for a television production.
This is the only Ingmar Bergman film to get a G rating from the MPAA.
A one hour TV documentary, Tystnad! Tagning! Trollflöjten! (1975), was shown in connection with this movie, it following director Ingmar Bergman behind the scenes.