In a 2017 interview Sebastian Stan commented about his experience working on the film: "My mom was taking me into auditions, and I ended up booking a small role in this Michael Haneke movie. And I had a horrible time. And it just... I hated it. I mean I was... it petrified me. And so I actually remember telling her I just didn't want to do anything. She just always saw me as very impressionistic as a kid and thought that this could be something I'd be into, and so was sort of stirring me that way, but I didn't... after that experience, I didn't want to have anything to do with it. And then it really began in high school, when I got to the US. Years later, freshman year, sophomore year in high school, I started doing plays."
Third part of Michael Haneke's "Glaciation Trilogy" also including Der siebente Kontinent (1989) and Benny's Video (1992).