The film won the popular vote at the Flateyri's Comedy Festival in 2018.
The film maker; Tómas Víkingsson is the son of the protagonist actor Víkingur Kristjánsson.
The world of the bumbling, washed up Bergur was thought up by Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Víkingur Kristjánsson, who were planing to create a series.
Tómas later used the characters and the world to create his own short story about Bergur and his son as his graduation film for the National Filmschool of Iceland.
In the film Björn Hlynur Haraldsson appears playing a comical version of himself.
In the film Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, a renowned Icelandic director also plays a comical version of himself.