To recoup their investment, the producers asked co-writer Alfred Rasser to imagine a new screenplay and reedit the material. He ended up using 3/4 of what had been shot against 1/4 of new scenes for what would become his first movie, "De Wyberfind", which came out two years later in 1942.
A first version of this movie was to be written and directed by Maria Stephan, an Austrian woman. The shooting started in April 1940 but had to stop after one month because of general war mobilization. Her nationality becoming a problem, Frau Stephan chose to flee to Milan and the movie was taken over by theater great Oskar Wälterlin, the newly appointed director of the Zurich Schauspielhaus. The finished movie reportedly retains about 10% of Maria Stephan's material.
This movie's distribution was held a few days before its premiere in December 1940 by censorship. The reason was the fear its subject (problems coming from marrying a foreigner) would encourage a xenophobia already too common among Swiss people at the beginning of the war and thus create problems with neighboring Germany. This is how it came to be shown for the first time before an audience only 40 years later.