 Mario Adorf (qv) wanted to play in this movie, preferably the role  of Hermann Willié, which went to Götz George (qv), or the role of  Fritz Knobel, which went to Uwe Ochsenknecht (qv). Adorf later  admitted that he had been offended for a few years, that  Helmut Dietl (qv) didnt cast him in any role.