In the charade scene, the actors really didn't know the correct answer, and they really guessed the words during the scene.
With 7 million dollars gross in its worldwide screening it is the second most successful Iranian film ever. The first is A Separation (2011) with near 20 million dollars gross.
According to director Asghar Farhadi, the film was not accepted into one Japanese film festival, since the movie's depiction of Iran was quite different from the idea that most foreign (especially Western) people tend to have of this country.
Iran's official submission for the Foreign Language Film category of the 81st Academy Awards (2009).
This is Golshifteh Farahani's last movie in Iran, which she did after Body of Lies (2008) by Ridley Scott.