The director Joseph Vilsmaier died shortly after finishing filming this movie and a couple of months before it was released.
It was planned to be released on December 17th 2020 in theaters but because of the corona pandemic it was released on May 2021 directly on Amazon Prime.
The film was shot in Bavaria and Austria from October 7 to November 29, 2019. Filming locations included the Benedictine monastery of Metten as a paradise, the Lienz Dolomites and the Waldkirchen train station.