Saul Rubinek (Mr. Feinman) is the son of Holocaust survivors and was born in a refugee camp in Germany.
Feeling the movie had limited commercial value, Canadian distributor Elevation Pictures didn't aggressively market the movie, resulting in the movie becoming a huge box office bomb.
Fourth musical film for director François Girard after Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993), Boychoir (2014) and The Red Violin (1998). He also works on stage musicals over the world. This film also stars actor Eddie Izzard who collaborated with François Girard in Boychoir (2014).