Director Sergiu Nicolaescu co-wrote the screenplay, directed and starred in this motion picture.
Loosely based on historical events that took place in 1918, in Transylvania.
Filming took place under difficult conditions, in winter, when temperatures dropped to minus 32 Celsius.
The grenade duel idea belonged to Romanian Director Sergiu Nicolaescu. Small explosive devices were set up in the areas where the grenades would fall. One pyrotechnics engineer got seriously hurt when the explosive device he was setting up prematurely blew up.
Romanian actress Violeta Andrei got in character by reading psychology books on absinthe drinkers and by studying paintings of absinthe drinkers created by the famous French painter Edgar Degas.Due to the extreme cold weather the actress contracted pneumonia.