The movie premiered as a paid download on the Internet, a month and a half before it went to cinemas.
Director Theo van Gogh was murdered during post production of this movie.
Marcel van Dam, a well-known Dutch TV personality, made an unsuccessful attempt to have his presence removed from the movie before the premiere. The movie uses an excerpt from a discussion program in which he calls Pim Fortuyn "an inferior human being" in his face.
The title refers to the date Pim Fortuyn was shot and killed, 6 May 2002.