Former child star Shirley Temple quit the board of the San Francisco Film Festival to protest its decision to show Nattlek (Night Games). She regarded it as pornography.
Award:
- Honorary diploma at the Venice International Film Festival (1966)
The full-frontal nudity of 14 year old actor Jorgen Lindström in this film was controversial. Lindström later remarked in an interview: "I don't think it was such a big deal. I do remember reactions in the papers, people worrying about that poor kid, who would be ruined for life. Well, I was 14 at the time, and not quite an innocent child any more. I can't remember being embarrassed or anything. In fact I remember walking about nude on the set between takes. In a way, I guess I was still a child and innocent about it all, in another way I also knew a bit about 'the facts of life.'"
French visa # 32320.
Finnish visa # 075043.