Gerrit Schmidt-Foß, who plays Dieter Lohse is the actor for the german dub of Leonardo Di Caprios voice. He also voices Dr. Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory.
Eventhrough Wutz, the dog of the Lohse family is always mentioned and can be heard he is only showed from the back with a wiggling tail. In the entire movie we never see the whole dog.
Hans Peter Korff prides himself that his an Irm Hermanns part on the train was done in only one take. Because Loriot was a perfectionist most scenes where done many times.
The birthday song for Renate's mother is based on the classic Swiss song "Freut euch des Lebens" (Enjoy your life), written by poet Johann Martin Usteri (1793) and the composer Hans Georg Nägeli (1795). One year earlier, in 1990, the original version of the song was sang in the GDR movie 'Die Sprungdeckeluhr'.
Final film of Ursula Reit.