In the original short story, "Pryzhok v vysotu s razbega", main male characters were enemies from the start, but writer Anastasia Chistyakova changed them to be best friends to achieve a greater dramatic effect.
The sound mix was recorded from scratch in summer 2008. The first version of the sound mix was created in a home studio to complete the film to be screened on a festival.
Principal photography started in March 2007 with eight reels of 35mm film, but most of the footage shot during the first 4 days was wasted because of technical problems with the camera. The shooting period had been re-scheduled and was over in September 2007 (instead of May), with a total amount of sixteen 1000-feet reels of footage shot.