Ezio Greggio stated that during filming a huge typhoon suddenly hit the island, damaging part of the filming equipment.
The plane used for the flight back to Italy is a McDonnell Douglas MD-80. Actually, this plane couldn't be used on the route Havana-Milan due to too low autonomy.
The parrot of Prof. Luigi Pinardi (Leo Gullotta) is played by three different parrots.
Actor Leonardo Pieraccioni was initially cast for the movie. Shortly before the filming started, produced Rita Rusic accepted to produce his movie I laureati (1995), so Carlo Vanzina allowed him to leave the cast in order to focus on his own movie.