Before filming began, the actors met with "authoritative" convicts who were serving their sentences in correctional colony No. 1 in the Syktyvkar settlement Upper Chov in order to obtain permission to shoot.
A film adaptation of Viktor Dotsenko's book "Deadline for the Mad".
During a visit to the cinema by Saveliy with Rybka, the previous film of the director Muratov, "The Crime Quartet," was shown there.
The shooting of the scene of the main character's jump from the bridge took place on the railway bridge over the Vym river, which connects the village of Vogvazdino and the village of Ust-Vym.
Several episodes of the film were shot at the Syktyvkar railway station.