The film was made on an extremely low budget and scenes supposedly set amidst the "red soil" of Nigeria were actually filmed in the Northumbrian countryside, near Morpeth (UK)
American financing fell through because the company involved wanted Adam to be white and Eve to be black for the Garden of Eden sequences.
This started life as an unstaged theater piece called "Short Stories".
Shot in under 5 weeks starting in Northumberland then in Umbria in Northern Italy,
Mike Figgis wrote and directed the film and the music, co produced it and played the trumpet,