With a 16 million Euro budget this film was the most expensive Dutch production ever. Its theatrical run lasted for just a week.
Ted's crashed aircraft is an XF-7, the photo reconnaissance variant of the B-24D Liberator heavy bomber.
The last production of Dutch movie company First Floor Features before they went bankrupt.
The much praised pop group dEUS (with frontman Tom Barman - himself also a movie director) made a score which was turned down.
The film utilizes an oft-used storyline of the war movie genre which has two soldiers in love with the same girl.