As a child, Roy Andersson witnessed the moving of about 100 houses from the bay of Skarvik to Gothenberg to facilitate the building of a new harbor. This involved putting the houses on logs and then rolling them to their new location. This is the inspiration behind the vignette of the rock star and his new bride whose cosy domestic scene appears to be on train tracks.
Every scene in the movie except one is shot in studio.
Shooting started in 2003 and had to be closed down twice due to need of more funding.
For the vignette set in a hairdressers, the actor getting his hair cut had to have all his hair shaved off initially and then glued back on.
Near the beginning of the film, the backdrop in the scene where the rocker couple breaks up looks very similar to Gustav Wunderwald's painting "Brücke über die Ackerstraße Berlin Nord" from 1927.