Film was mainly made with an approach similar to surrealist technique known as "exquisite corpse", with each crew member and actor knowing bare minimum about what others were filming.
Sony earphones seen in the hotel room near Appolinariy are the same that Mykola Yeriomin used for editing and sound of this movie.
Mykola Yeriomin: [multilinguality] Yeriomin's character Appolinariy Appolinarievich is described as a multilingual man himself. Film, while being primarily in Russian displays Ancient Egyptian, Ukrainian and English (with two different accents).
Mykola Yeriomin: [Askold Tutylopydirskiy] his name is written in Ancient Egyptian in the background of main titles.
Mykola Yeriomin: [homeliness and cosiness, often long-awaited by characters] Appolinariy Appolinarievch relaxing in his hotel room after tiresome day of tourism and smuggling, also man portrayed by Sergey A. relaxing in his ship cabin.