This is the second movie in which Jesper Christensen and Pernilla August are parts in a wife-husband-mistress triangle. Here Pernilla August is the mistress, in Drabet (2005) she was the wife.
The original Swedish title is derived from a line in Hávamál.
The craftsmen briefly appearing at the editorial office, Eddie Axberg and Pierre Lindstedt have both more or less leading roles in an other Jan Troell film, The Emigrants (Utvandrarna).