Number of roles are played by young amateurs.
Juno is credited in this film as Jon Korhonen-Hurmerinta, although his marriage with Janna Hurmerinta did fall down in winter 2016 several months prior this film's release.
To avoid naming some specific Helsinki neighborhoods as a crime-ridden ghetto where the events of the film take place in, the film deliberately was edited so that the scenes jump quite randomly from one part of Helsinki to another, although in reality these places can be quite far away from each other.
Antti J. Jokinen got the idea to ask Viljami Nojonen to casting after Jokinen saw Nojonen in a news interview.