The part of "Sussi" was originally intended to be played by Simone Madsen (or in Denmark better known as Stripper-Simone) but she was pregnant and went into labor and got hospitalized on the day before the shooting of the film started. Anna Bård jumped on the wagon in the last minute, saving the day for the project.
On 20 November 2004, only one and a half months after finishing the shooting of the film, one of the films leading actors, Amar El-Khatib went underground because he was being hunted nationwide by the police. El-Khatib was a reformed criminal from the very society the film is portraying and still had a sentence to complete. Danish newspaper "Ekstra Bladet" somehow managed to track him down and interview him anyway, and he explained he simply had to attend a wedding and would turn himself in in December.
The scene with the little boy in Afghanistan who have been shot in the throat is actually authentic real-life recordings taken 17 years earlier that was used. The little 4-year-old boy is actually the actor who plays the role of Muhammed in the film, Amar El-Khatib.