Albeit a Christmas movie, its release was anticipated to November 3rd, exactly a year after Proietti's death.
As Ettore gets out of prison, the first things he sees are two men playing bagpipes. In Marco Giallini's previous film with Edoardo Falcone, "Se Dio vuole", his character Tommaso remarked that he considered bagpipe players were anachronistic, and that he didn't want his son to become a bagpipe player.