All of the female character names are taken from various UFA stars; Sybille Schmitz, Zarah Leander, Brigitte Horney, Luise Ullrich, Kristina Söderbaum, Olga Tschechowa and Henny Porten.
The film was shot and modeled specifically to resemble a 1930s-40s UFA melodrama.
The main inspiration behind the film was an illustrated coffee table book titled "Tainted Goddesses: Film Stars of the Third Reich," detailing the rise and fall of the German film industry and its stars under the Nazi regime.