The film cost a million and a half euros, having €600.000 from the Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual (ICA), €170.000 from Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, €120.000 from Agência Nacional do Cinema (Ancine, the Brazilian akin from ICA), and a good part from Montepio Geral, as well as the purchase by RTP of the rights for the mini-series.