The main character's name, Fanny Zander, is a reference to Ingmar Bergman's movie, Fanny and Alexander (1982).
For the role of Gottfried, director Colin Nutley was afraid to ask actor Ernst Günther to shave off his trademark beard. Finally, Nutley took the chance and Günther agreed.
Rikard Wolff suffered a motorcycle accident at the end shooting, going down a road with Helena Bergström on the backseat. Wolff scraped his knee badly but neither he nor Bergström was seriously injured.