The scenes for the Hotel Pariz restaurant were filmed in the main restaurant in Prague's Obecni Dum (Civic House), just around the corner from the actual Hotel Pariz. Both restaurants were designed in the Art Nouveau style by artist Alphons Mucha, but the Obecni Dum restaurant is larger.
The actor who played Tichota, the innkeeper in the wheelchair, is Rudolf Hrusínský. His father, Rudolf Hrusínský - who died in 1994 - was a legendary Czech actor and a favorite of Director Jirí Menzel's.
Czech Republic's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008).
Marie Málková's debut.