Director Corneliu Porumboiu's largest budget to date. He estimated the budget to be about two-and-a-half times what he usually works with, or all his prior films combined, making financing difficult.
Was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated, which had exactly been the case for the film's prequel, Police, Adjective (2009), as well.
The real-time through chapters is following: 1. Szolt 2. Mama 3. Gilda 4. Kiko 5. Sylbo language 6. Pako 7. Magda 8. Costi.