The story of Zombie is based on the life of Sleepy Sleepers roadie and musician Pulu. Leading actor Silu Seppälä was his friend and is an musician too, so the movie has some aspects of Seppälä's life too.
According to director Mika Kaurismäki, this is one of the most important movies his own movies "for personal reasons" and the ending is probably most successful.
Solitude by Black Sabbath is a theme song of the movie. According to director Mika Kaurismäki the atmosphere and the lyrics of the song fits perfectly to the story.
During the televised 1991 Jussi Awards on February 7, 1992 (part of the program "H-hetki"), host Georg Dolivo introduced cinematographer Olli Varja as "Olli Varjala". Director Mika Kaurismäki accepted the award for best actor on behalf of Silu Seppälä.
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