Ornella Muti was offered a role in the film. According to Franco Nero, she was sent the script but refused to even read it.
Director Beppe Cino's first of two movies based on novels by Sicilian writer Gesualdo Bufalino. The second one is "Maria Venera" (2007).
The movie is based on Gesualdo Bufalino's novel "The Plague Sower" (1981).
Franco Nero traveled back and forth between the United States and Italy to accommodate both this film and Die Hard 2 (1990).