According to producer Luca Barbareschi the film has a budget of EUR 17 million ($17.8 million) and shot for 17 weeks in Gstaad, Switzerland.
This marks as a reunion between Roman Polanski and Jerzy Skolimowski 61 years after their first script collaboration in Knife in the Water (1962), which marked as Polanski's debut as a director.
When suggesting to use a bandaid for Bongo's nose, Hansueli suggests he would look like "that actor" in "that movie". He's speaking of Jack Nicholson in Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974).
Director Roman Polanski owns a house near the shooting location in Gstaad, Switzerland, where he lives with his family most of the time.
This film marks the first time Mickey Rourke has acknowledged on camera that he is bald. Up until this point in time Rourke has relied on an array of long hair pieces to hide his baldness.