Director Roberto Faenza said in the bathtub sex scene between Laura Chiatti and Claudio Santamaria he left the actors completely alone. "The crew was outside their room and inside there was a camera left alone with the actors, and maneuvered through a hole, so that they did not feel they were being watched. There was an intimacy and naturalness between them that you rarely get in cinema," Faenza said.
Vanessa Biermannová's debut.