Final film of Lindsay Anderson. Completed in 1992, it was first broadcast on the BBC in September 1994, soon after his death.
Most of the film was shot in and around Lindsay Anderson's apartment at Stirling Mansions, Canfield Gardens, London. The building now has a historical marker noting that the director lived there from 1977 to 1994. Anderson's former home has since had three owners; it last sold in 2020 for £1.5 million ($1.9 million USD).
In one scene Lindsay Anderson undergoes a heart exam and is reassured he is doing well. The director had suffered a heart attack in 1991; the viewer is not informed of this, but early in the film he is seen taking several medications. In 1994 a second coronary would kill him.
Lindsay Anderson wanted Miroslav Ondrícek, his cinematographer for If (1968) and O Lucky Man! (1973), to shoot this film, but he was unavailable.
A friend presents Anderson with a bottle of Stolichnaya vodka, telling him it's "from your favorite part of the world". This was a sardonic reference to the recent collapse of the Soviet Union, which Anderson considered "disastrous".