Virgin Films financed about a quarter of the movie's budget with the other three quarters being funded by Britain's former UK film funding agency the NNFC (National Film Finance Corporation).
This 1983 British film was not released in the USA until 1988.
According to Time Out, the film was "a welcome attempt to revive and update - steering clear of crass stereotypes - the bitter-sweet romance of classics like Ich war eine männliche Kriegsbraut (1949) and the Tracy-Hepburn [Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn] vehicles".
Publicity for the picture stated that the movie was "not exactly a love story".
The picture, a road movie, shot in two European countries: England and the then West Germany (now part of Germany).