A polish man was having doubt regarding becoming a monk, he contacted the director and was allowed seeing a preliminary cut of the film - after seeing the film his doubts were erased and he is now in Sri Lanka in a monastery.
Olaf was so taken with Rober that he decided to make a film about him without knowing why. Due to filmmaking good fortune, they got the whole cycle of a monk visiting the layman's world, when Robert disrobed, married, divorced and became a monk again.
Due to the long filming period the film was shot on many different video formats, standard Beta, SP Beta, DV and HDV. About 178 hours were filmed during the 10 years.