The film is a family collaboration between writer Rubem Fonseca, his son, the director José Henrique Fonseca and lead actress Cláudia Abreu, who is married with the director.
Wagner Moura appears briefly as the first guy that Maiquel (Murilo Benício) kills. He was a rising star and in that same year of 2003 he premiered in 3 other films: Deus é Brasileiro by Cacá Diegues, Carandiru by Hector Babenco and Caminho das Nuvens by Vicente Amorim. He became famous to the Brazilian public as a villain in a soap opera called Paraíso Tropical (2007) and right after with the premiere of Tropa de Elite. In 2015 he would become globally famous playing Pablo Escobar in Netflix's Narcos.