This film reunites Samuel Le Bihan and Émilie Dequenne as an on-screen couple after their roles as lovers in Le Pacte des loups (2001) (2001).
Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel appeared in Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Falling in Love (1984), Copland (1997), Mon beau-père et nous (2010), Arthur et les Minimoys (2006) (voices) and The Irishman (2018).
Director Allan Dwan planned to film this in 1960, but his producer had let the rights expire.
This was the last film to be released by Fine Line Features in the United States before the company was folded into Picturehouse.