During the shooting time of three weeks, the complete cast lived in the main set, a villa in Palermo.
The script was written in two weeks, the shooting took three weeks. The cutting, however, took two years, since all the cutting was done by director Robert Gwisdek and he could not decide on a final version.
The moment of surprise when the two protagonists meet for the first time in the bakery is real; the two actors had never seen each other before that scene.
Denis Lavant speaks French only, but only one of the 18-person crew spoke French to translate to the rest of the (German speaking) crew.
To accomplish that authentic reaction of surprise when meeting each other for the first time, main actress Kiara Höflich had to be locked in her room for three days.