In the beginning, the two children play around as Luke Skywalker and Jack Sparrow on the ruins of the Treznea manor, the scene of atrocious ethnic killing in WWII. This spot was chosen for its picturesque scenery and the blood story of intolerance behind it. Fortunately, the past is but a ruin and the world has grown more tolerant today.
The movie mentions a hen that enters the distillery through a hole in the wall and lays an egg every day. The hen existed in real life. Hence Onion's line "you are more stupid than this hen!"
In the film, famous Romanian chef Adi Hadean plays the role of the athlete who will carry the Olympic torch for the London 2012 games. While shooting the necklace scene, we stumbled upon an old newspaper which covered the exact Adi Hadean, training to carry the Olympic torch to the London Olympics.
The film starts with the interview taken to a local Gypsy woman who tells us about the girl of a certain Stanescu Ioan, from a village near Sebes Alba, who fell in love and eloped with a Gypsy "of a different race than hers". She was a tinker Gypsy, he was a Nomad. Stanescu Ioan's nickname? He was referred to as "Garlic". Never before have any of us witnessed a more shocking, hair-raising coincidence.
