Guillaume Depardieu needed no special effects for his missing leg, as he had really lost his leg when in June 2003 - after enduring 17 unsuccessful operations to his knee following a motorcycle accident in 1995 - doctors amputated his leg. Depardieu was working on this film when he contracted a severe viral pneumonia which claimed his life at the age of 37. He was the oldest son of Gérard Depardieu.
One of Guillaume Depardieu's final films along with Au voleur (2009). Both were released posthumously.