The story takes place in an post apocalyptic desert. Since there is no area like that in whole central Europe, basically the entire film was shot in an old surface mining area 70 miles from Berlin.
Cinematographer Luciano Cervio and director Linus de Paoli decided to shot the film in 2:1 ratio after they saw Vittorio Storaro presenting his work Caravaggio (2007) on the Camerimage Film Festival in Lodz (although neither liked the film).
Director Linus de Paoli worked as an assistant director on the short film Cowboy (2008) by Till Kleinert. Till Kleinert worked as an Assistant Director on this film. Linus and Till are in the same year at their film school in Berlin.
A rare example of a co-production between the film schools in Potsdam and Berlin.
The first working title for the film was "The Chicken Game".