Giovanni Montinaro, son of Judge Giovanni Falcone's chief of security, strongly opposed the film, criticizing the choice of releasing it on the anniversary of the murder of his father and of the others involved in the attack. He let it go when Pierfrancesco Favino told him that the date was chosen by the production precisely as a way to pay homage to Falcone, his wife and his security detail, killed that day in 1992.
Luigi Lo Cascio, who plays Mafia boss Salvatore Contorno, debuted in cinema playing the role of Peppino Impastato, a notorious activist who fought Mafia, in the movie "The Hundred Steps"