Stories from the set

In Australia, Paganel and Robert ride horses and talk about the exhausting heat in winter, while in the same shot a horse snorted and steam came out of its mouth.

When the travelers in New Zealand climbed a volcano, they should have quickly suffocated in the poisonous volcanic smoke.

The film was shot on location in the landscapes of Bulgaria, Crimea, the waters of the Black Sea, and aboard the sailing ship "Tovarishch."

The sample of the military uniform worn by Major MacNabbs was introduced in Scottish troops after 1881, i.e. considerably later than the events depicted in the film.

The Patagonia storyline was filmed in the vicinity of the Bulgarian town of Belogradchik.

A three-masted Bermuda schooner, the Kodor, was used as the "Duncan" during the filming of the movie.

The film uses Isaac Dunaevsky's overture from the film Children of Captain Grant (1936).