The story is based on co-writer, and art teacher Akin Aksu's diary which he kept during his 3-year-long compulsory service in Anatolia.
It took Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan and Akin Aksu almost a year to write the screenplay. They ended up with a very long script, twice as long as the one for Sueño de invierno (2014), which was 285 pages long. Nuri Bilge Ceylan filmed the entire script and it was in the editing process that he cut it down.
According to Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's co-writer since Tres Monos: No veo, no escucho, no hablo (2008), this is their longest script yet.
Marks the first time since Iklimler (2006) that Nuri Bilge Ceylan didn't collaborate both his longtime cinematographer Gökhan Tiryaki, and his producer Zeynep Özbatur Atakan.
Kursat Uresin served as the cinematographer for this movie. In the same year, he also worked as the cinematographer for the film "Hayat" (2023), directed by Zeki Demirkubuz. Both directors are renowned as leading figures in Turkish cinema.