The whole movie was made solely by one man, from filming to directing, editing, music, special effects, poems etc.
The director Jukka Eronen is a big fan of Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick, Walt Disney and J.R.R. Tolkien, among others.
The idea for the film started as a nature documentary and evolved into a fantasy movie while filming and editing.
The film was filmed in Hanko, the southernmost city in Finland, and the production took four years.