Shot in Rimetea [Hungarian: Torockó; German: Eisenmarkt/Eisenburg], a village in Transylvania, Romania. The inhabitants are mostly ethnic Hungarians: Before World War I it used to belong to Austria-Hungary.
The film depicts an episode in the war between Austria-Hungary and Italy, fought between 1915 and 1918 in World War I. The war marked the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.