This is the second film concerning Alma Schindler and Gustav Mahler's love affair in which Johannes Silberschneider has acted in; the first was Bride of the Wind (2001), in which he portrayed Alma's music teacher and lover Alexander von Zemlinsky, who Alma would leave to marry Gustav Mahler. In this film, Silberschneider plays Mahler.
The scene in which Alma (Barbara Romaner) is moved to tears by reading a section of Mahler's music was shot in one take.
Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius, lovers in this film, are portrayed by Barbara Romaner and Friedrich Mücke, a real-life couple.