This movie is a very loose adaptation of the novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov. The main connection is that a writer is renting a room at a single mother and her teen daughter and the writer starts an affair with the daughter.
Filmed on location in the village Komarovo near St. Petersburg, Russia.
First of only two roles for lead actress Valeria Nemchenko. She was 15. She isn't naked (though she said in interviews that she was willing to perform fully nude) but she does perform nude two years later in Russian Nymphet: Temptation (2004) at age 17 for the same director. It was her final role.
The names of the main characters are changed from Nabokov's novel and resemble characters from classic Russian literature. Dolores "Lolita" Haze is named "Alisa" and is nicknamed "Lisyenok" (Russian for: Little Fox), which resembles the character "Alisa the Fox" from "Buratino" by Aleksei Tolstoy. Professor Humbert is here called "Gennadi Petrovich" and is nicknamed by Alisa as "the crocodile" which makes him being named after "Gena the crocodile" from the "Tcheburashka" books by Eduard Uspenskiy. The mother Charlotte Haze is called "Olga Sergeevna" who is either named after Olga from "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin, in which she is the reason for a fight between Onegin and Lenski who were both in love with her, or "Olga Sergeevna Il'insakya" from the novel "Oblomov" by Ivan Goncharov.
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