The movie was written by twelve year old Laura Hornack for a children's' script-contest run by Kamera Kinder Koeln as a cultural project of the city of Cologne for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Three winning scripts were turned into professional short films, this is one of them.
To create the expressionist and grainy film look (reminding old German films from the 1920s, such as "Nosferatu") the film was shot entirely on Super8 b/w Kodak Material.