Marcel van Dam, a well-known Dutch TV personality, made an unsuccessful attempt to have his presence removed from the movie before the premiere. The movie uses an excerpt from a discussion program in which he calls Pim Fortuyn "an inferior human being" in his face.
The movie premiered as a paid download on the Internet, a month and a half before it went to cinemas.
In the movie there is a fictional insurance company, Fiducia. It also plays an important role in Theo van Gogh's 2001 movie Baby Blue (2001).