The film is based on Volume 1 of Marcel Proust's novel "In Search of Lost Time" (1919) which is commonly known as "Swann's Way". Show-business trade paper 'Variety' reported that the film represents "the second part of the first volume of Marcel Proust's monumental book."
One of a number of filmed literary adaptations of director Volker Schlöndorff who is well-known for adapting literature into film.
Show-business trade paper 'Variety' said of this film that "scripters do a cut and paste job on the text, lifting, transposing and dovetailing episodes and dialog from all over the [source] novel and concentrating them into a single 24-hour period."
Luchino Visconti had tried to film Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" in 1969 with Helmut Berger starring, but getting the script right, and getting financing, was always a problem.
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